One of the toughest things about life is making choices. I had a hard time saying ‘no’ to a bunch of other excellent possibilities. James Gosling Read Quote
The nerves were so badly compressed that I had no feeling on the palm of my hand. I mean, you could have pounded a nail through my hand and I wouldn’t have been able to feel it. James Gosling Read Quote
I had half my family that were farmers, and I was really pretty good at repairing farm equipment. There was certainly a period of time where I would have been happy to do that, just to be a farm equipment repairman in Dalemead, Alberta. James Gosling Read Quote
The whole thought of a career with computers – given that hardly anybody even knew what they were – it wasn’t even a concept. James Gosling Read Quote
I like to bitch and moan about lawyers, but they often have actually good points. James Gosling Read Quote
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. James Gosling Read Quote
I enjoy evangelizing Java. In my heart of hearts, I’m an engineer, and what makes me happy is building something that works and having someone use it. That’s cool. James Gosling Read Quote
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 back, or standalone things. James Gosling Read Quote
When you interview at Google, they don’t tell you what the job is. You get hired for a pool and the reason they do it that way is they don’t want outsiders learning their secrets in the interview process. James Gosling Read Quote
My impression is that a really, really high-order concern for the whole development community is interoperability and consistency. James Gosling Read Quote
