Java Quote by Miguel de Icaza

Java isn't platform independent; it is a platform

— Bjarne Stroustrup

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

— Bruce Tate

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

— James Gosling

I think Unix is a great system -- especially for running data centers -- because it is very mature, very reliable, very scalable. But…

— Bill Joy

I hate java it fuckin pisses me off

— Annikken

You see people doing Java-based internal applications all over the place, regular desktop applications that are sort of front-ends to the things in the…

— James Gosling

Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones. Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing…

— Alan Kay

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

— Bjarne Stroustrup

After all, C++ isn't a perfect match for Java's design aims either

— Bjarne Stroustrup

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

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