Quotes from James Gosling

One of the toughest things about life is making choices. I had a hard time saying 'no' to a bunch of other excellent possibilities.

I've made the comment that democracies work slower than dictatorships. That's a true thing.

The whole thought of a career with computers - given that hardly anybody even knew what they were - it wasn't even a concept.

For us, the real goal is to make it so that the software ecosystem is as healthy as possible.

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

In C there are no data structures: there are pointers and pointer arithmetic. So you have a pointer into a data structure.

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 that we do. There are a variety of issues that make it a very complex discussion as to whether it actually works as a business.

One of the things that Java is good at is giving you this homogeneous view of a reality that's usually very heterogeneous.

From the point of view of the people who are using the platform, one of the most valuable things about Java is the consistency, the interoperability.

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 for Ada, and they all work. Not many people use them, but it doesn't matter: they all work.