All of us who attended the meeting - including Microsoft - unanimously agreed that unilaterally extending the Java programming language would hurt compatibility among Java tools and programs, would injure other tools vendors and would damage customers' ability to run… — 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
If I were to pick a language to use today other than Java, it would be Scala — James Gosling Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
