James Gosling Quotes

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

  James Gosling

  Gun, Knives, Java

  "Object Oriented Programming with C++ (Second Edition)". Book by David Parsons, November 8, 2000.

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

  James Gosling

  Thinking, Would Be, Java

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• People think of security as a noun, something you go buy. In reality, it's an abstract concept like happiness. Openness is unbelievably helpful to security.

  James Gosling

  Reality, Thinking, People

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• It makes my head explode when there are people who think you can do everything in HTML.

  James Gosling

  Thinking, Html, People

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• The real payoffs you never understand. You should just give good people money and tell them to do good things.

  James Gosling

  Real, People, Giving

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

  James Gosling

  Code Quality, Programming, Software Engineering

  "A Conversation with James Gosling". Interview with Bill Venners, www.artima.com. Jun 9, 2003.

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

  James Gosling

  Would Be, Use, Java

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• 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 think in a secure mindset end up in trouble. But just because the facilities are there doesn't mean that security is assured automatically. A set of standard practices has evolved over the years. The Secure Coding Standard for Java is a compendium of these practices. These are not theoretical research papers or product marketing blurbs. This is all serious, mission-critical, battle-tested, enterprise-scale stuff.

  James Gosling

  Mean, Thinking, Years

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• I've surprised myself and made another career change. I had a great time at Google, met lots of interesting people, but I met some folks outside doing something completely outrageous, and after much anguish decided to leave Google.

  James Gosling

  Careers, People, Interesting

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• During the integration meetings between Sun and Oracle, where we were being grilled about the patent situation between Sun and Google, we could see the Oracle lawyer's eyes sparkle.

  James Gosling

  Eye, Google, Patents

  "Oracle-Google Suit Attacks Open Source Software" by David Kravets, www.wired.com. August 13, 2010.

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• You know, most people in the open-source world who use open-source software don't actually do builds themselves - those people just download the binaries. And so we expect that the big enterprise people will just do that and we will certainly be providing binaries that have been through full industrial-strength QA, that have been through all the conformance testing.

  James Gosling

  People, Use, World

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• 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 a Java-based software product on whatever platform they wished.

  James Gosling

  Running, Hurt, Tools

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