Simply put, when you have very large pieces of software, most of the tools look at the individual lines of code as text. It is often extremely powerful to look not at individual pieces of code but at a system… — James Gosling Copy Share Image
If you look at our customers, our customers tend to be really high-end people who make big, sophisticated systems. — James Gosling Copy Share Image
In the Java world, security is not viewed as an add-on a feature. It is a pervasive way of thinking. Those who forget to… — James Gosling Copy Share Image
One of the toughest things about life is making choices. I had a hard time saying 'no' to a bunch of other excellent possibilities. — James Gosling Copy Share Image
My impression is that a really, really high-order concern for the whole development community is interoperability and consistency. — James Gosling Copy Share Image
I've always felt that sort of in the abstract, open-source is the right thing to do for a lot of the kinds of things… — James Gosling Copy Share Image
So in a strong sense with Java it was a learning process for us - there was some tech learning - but the most… — James Gosling Copy Share Image
I think it would be a tragic statement of the universe if Java was the last language that swept through. — James Gosling Copy Share Image
The NetBeans team tended to be focused on academic purity. Getting them to be a little more blue-collar was a challenge. — James Gosling Copy Share Image
I like to bitch and moan about lawyers, but they often have actually good points. — James Gosling Copy Share Image
The notion of having a fleet of autonomous ocean-going vehicles wandering the world collecting data is something out of fiction. — James Gosling Copy Share Image
Anytime someone builds a little application that runs on a cell phone, there's something that goes on the server. — James Gosling Copy Share Image
