56 Quotes by James Gosling

I didn't do programming language stuff in college at all.

The whole thought of a career with computers - given that hardly anybody even knew what they were - it wasn't even a concept.

The nerves were so badly compressed that I had no feeling on the palm of my hand. I mean, you could have pounded a nail through my hand and I wouldn't have been able to feel it.

Most developer tools try to shield you from actually writing code in constructing the GUI bits or the database bits. Yet when you do write code you usually get glass teletypes where high tech is keyword coloring.

Renaming a class at one level is really easy; you just change the name. But how do you change all the references to that class and all the imports?

Some of these isolated applications that sit on one machine are a million lines of code. How do you deal with that? Most people have no way to wrap their head around it.

When you have large systems, it becomes almost impossible to make even very simple changes.

The way that NetBeans is architected, it's not so much a tool as a tool environment.

The data center side of the world is kind of like a solved problem, but you see interesting things happening on the edge with things like cell phones and embedded systems that are becoming really fascinating.