56 Quotes by James Gosling

You see people doing Java-based internal applications all over the place, regular desktop applications that are sort of front-ends to the things in the back, or standalone things.

The asparagus effect is what happens sometimes when you render 2D images into 3D.

So in a strong sense with Java it was a learning process for us - there was some tech learning - but the most important learnings were social or behavioral things.

I had half my family that were farmers, and I was really pretty good at repairing farm equipment. There was certainly a period of time where I would have been happy to do that, just to be a farm equipment repairman in Dalemead, Alberta.

From the point of view of the people who are using the platform, one of the most valuable things about Java is the consistency, the interoperability.

If you want to write the software to control the national medical system of a large country, Java is perfect.

When you interview at Google, they don't tell you what the job is. You get hired for a pool and the reason they do it that way is they don't want outsiders learning their secrets in the interview process.

I like to bitch and moan about lawyers, but they often have actually good points.

If you look at our customers, our customers tend to be really high-end people who make big, sophisticated systems.