Payoffs Quotes by James Gosling

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

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

My impression is that a really, really high-order concern for the whole development community is interoperability and consistency.

— James Gosling

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

— James Gosling

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

So in a strong sense with Java it was a learning process for us - there was some tech learning - but the most…

— James Gosling

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

— James Gosling

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

— James Gosling

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

— James Gosling

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

— James Gosling

The notion of having a fleet of autonomous ocean-going vehicles wandering the world collecting data is something out of fiction.

— James Gosling

Anytime someone builds a little application that runs on a cell phone, there's something that goes on the server.

— James Gosling

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

— James Gosling

Java the language is almost irrelevant. It's the design of the Java Virtual Machine. And I've seen compilers for ML, compilers for Scheme, compilers…

— James Gosling

Simply put, when you have very large pieces of software, most of the tools look at the individual lines of code as text. It…

— James Gosling