James Gosling Java Quotations

All of us who attended the meeting -- including Microsoft -- unanimously agreed that unilaterally extending the Java programming language would hurt compatibility among Java tools and programs, would injure other tools vendors, and would damage customers' ability to run a Java-based software product on whatever platform they wished,

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

I think it would be a tragic statement of the universe if Java was the last language that swept through.

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