56 Quotes by James Gosling

You know, most people in the open-source world who use open-source software don't actually do builds themselves - those people just download the binaries. And so we expect that the big enterprise people will just do that and we will certainly be providing binaries that have been through full industrial-strength QA, that have been through all the conformance testing.

It makes my head explode when there are people who think you can do everything in HTML.

An API that isn't comprehensible isn't usable.

If I were to pick a language to use today other than Java, it would be Scala

I've surprised myself and made another career change. I had a great time at Google, met lots of interesting people, but I met some folks outside doing something completely outrageous, and after much anguish decided to leave Google.

I think it would be a tragic statement of the universe if Java was the last language that swept through.

The real payoffs you never understand. You should just give good people money and tell them to do good things.

People think of security as a noun, something you go buy. In reality, it's an abstract concept like happiness. Openness is unbelievably helpful to security.

Java is C++ without the guns, knives, and clubs