Most developer tools try to shield you from actually writing code in constructing the GUI bits or the database bits. Yet when… — James Gosling Glass Copy Share Image
One of the things that Java is good at is giving you this homogeneous view of a reality that's usually very heterogeneous. — James Gosling Giving Copy Share Image
People think of security as a noun, something you go buy. In reality, it's an abstract concept like happiness. Openness is unbelievably… — James Gosling Abstract Copy Share Image
You know, most people in the open-source world who use open-source software don't actually do builds themselves - those people just download… — James Gosling Bigs Copy Share Image
For us, the real goal is to make it so that the software ecosystem is as healthy as possible. — James Gosling Goals 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 Big Copy Share Image
The nerves were so badly compressed that I had no feeling on the palm of my hand. I mean, you could have… — James Gosling Could Copy Share Image
The real payoffs you never understand. You should just give good people money and tell them to do good things. — James Gosling Giving Copy Share Image
During the integration meetings between Sun and Oracle, where we were being grilled about the patent situation between Sun and Google, we… — James Gosling Eye Copy Share Image
I've surprised myself and made another career change. I had a great time at Google, met lots of interesting people, but I… — James Gosling Anguish Copy Share Image
When you interview at Google, they don't tell you what the job is. You get hired for a pool and the reason… — James Gosling Learning Copy Share Image
When you have large systems, it becomes almost impossible to make even very simple changes. — James Gosling Becomes Copy Share Image
I've made the comment that democracies work slower than dictatorships. That's a true thing. — James Gosling Democracy Copy Share Image
All of us who attended the meeting - including Microsoft - unanimously agreed that unilaterally extending the Java programming language would hurt… — James Gosling Ability Copy Share Image
Renaming a class at one level is really easy; you just change the name. But how do you change all the references… — James Gosling Change Copy Share Image
I had half my family that were farmers, and I was really pretty good at repairing farm equipment. There was certainly a… — James Gosling Family Copy Share Image
You see people doing Java-based internal applications all over the place, regular desktop applications that are sort of front-ends to the things… — James Gosling Back Copy Share Image
If you want to write the software to control the national medical system of a large country, Java is perfect. — James Gosling Control Copy Share Image
