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

- James Gosling

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

- James Gosling

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 bina…

- James Gosling

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

- James Gosling

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

- James Gosling

During the integration meetings between Sun and Oracle, where we were being grilled about the patent situation between Sun and Google, we could see t…

- James Gosling

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 en…

- James Gosling

All of us who attended the meeting - including Microsoft - unanimously agreed that unilaterally extending the Java programming language would hurt co…

- James Gosling

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 se…

- James Gosling