Back Quote by James Gosling

What's kept Java from being used as widely as possible is there hasn't been an Open Source implementation of it that's gotten really widespread…

— Brian Behlendorf

I was interested in Java the beginning, but the problem with Java is you do have to switch your platform.

— Miguel de Icaza

“The experience of writing something in Java and then trying to figure out—I myself have trouble installing Java on my computer—it's horrible.”

— Peter Seibel

Java isn't platform independent; it is a platform

— Bjarne Stroustrup

Java development without a little heresy would be a dull place, and a dangerous one.

— Bruce Tate

However, when Java is promoted as the sole programming language, its flaws and limitations become serious.

— Bjarne Stroustrup

I hate java it fuckin pisses me off

— Annikken

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

— James Gosling

Some of these isolated applications that sit on one machine are a million lines of code. How do you deal with that? Most people…

— James Gosling

While Microsoft does not share all of Oracle's ambitions for Java, we agree that it is a very valuable tool for software developers.

— Bill Gates

If you want to write the software to control the national medical system of a large country, Java is perfect.

— James Gosling

If Java had true garbage collection, most programs would delete themselves upon execution.

— Robert Sewell