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One of the things that Java is good at is giving you this homogeneous view of a reality that's usually very heterogeneous.
- James Gosling
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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
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I've made the comment that democracies work slower than dictatorships. That's a true thing.
- James Gosling
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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
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The notion of having a fleet of autonomous ocean-going vehicles wandering the world collecting data is something out of fiction.
- James Gosling
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#World
If you look at our customers, our customers tend to be really high-end people who make big, sophisticated systems.
- James Gosling
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The NetBeans team tended to be focused on academic purity. Getting them to be a little more blue-collar was a challenge.
- James Gosling
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Most developer tools try to shield you from actually writing code in constructing the GUI bits or the database bits. Yet when you do write code you usually get glass teletypes where high tech is keyword coloring.
- James Gosling
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I like to bitch and moan about lawyers, but they often have actually good points.
- James Gosling
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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.
- James Gosling
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#Language
#Matter
#People
#Work
Anytime someone builds a little application that runs on a cell phone, there's something that goes on the server.
- James Gosling
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#Something
When you have large systems, it becomes almost impossible to make even very simple changes.
- James Gosling
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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
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The way that NetBeans is architected, it's not so much a tool as a tool environment.
- James Gosling
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#Tool
#Way
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
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#Learning
#Process
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#Way
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.
- James Gosling
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#People
#Point Of View
#View
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
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#Computers
#Even
#Thought
#Whole
If you want to write the software to control the national medical system of a large country, Java is perfect.
- James Gosling
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#Country
#Medical
#Perfect
#Want
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