56 Quotes by James Gosling

The clock rate curves have pretty much flattened out since 2002.

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

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

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.

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.

During the integration meetings between Sun and Oracle, where we were being grilled about the patent situation between Sun and Google, we could see the Oracle lawyer’s eyes sparkle.

For us, the real goal is to make it so that the software ecosystem is as healthy as possible.

One of the toughest things about life is making choices. I had a hard time saying 'no' to a bunch of other excellent possibilities.

The NetBeans team tended to be focused on academic purity. Getting them to be a little more blue-collar was a challenge.