James Gosling
Often credited as the father of the Java programming language.
Most quoted
"Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as you can, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it."
— from Commonly attributed/quoted by him
"The problem with C++ is that it's too easy to shoot yourself in the foot. Java is much harder to shoot yourself in the foot with, but when you do, you blow your whole leg off."
— from Interview/Presentation, 1996
"If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea."
— from often attributed to Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, but Gosling has used it in context of software development
All quotes by James Gosling (361)
The best revenge is massive success.
What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.
It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is most adaptable to change.
The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions.
The only constant in life is change.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.
Believe you can and you're halfway there.
The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.
The quieter you become, the more you can hear.
Everything you can imagine is real.
The soul always knows what to do to heal itself. The challenge is to silence the mind.
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.
It is not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Contemporaries of James Gosling
Other Computer Sciences born within 50 years of James Gosling (1955).