Top 70 Quotes About Java
#1. The Malays can hardly be said to have an indigenous literature, for it is almost entirely derived from Persia, Siam, Arabia, and Java. Arabic is their sacred language.
Isabella Bird
#2. Java development without a little heresy would be a dull place, and a dangerous one.
Bruce Tate
#3. However, when Java is promoted as the sole programming language, its flaws and limitations become serious.
Bjarne Stroustrup
#4. fundamental to the Java platform from its inception and predates the emergence of Web-based services standards.
Thomas Erl
#5. The book the Ziff folks sent me as an example of their art was 'Late Night VRML 2.0 with Java,' 700 pages + CD-ROM, published February 1997. I was personally acquainted with more movie stars than people who might conceivably have wanted to buy this book or any book like it.
Philip Greenspun
#6. JavaScript derives its syntax from Java, its first-class functions from Scheme, and its prototype-based inheritance from Self. But
David Flanagan
#7. While Microsoft does not share all of Oracle's ambitions for Java, we agree that it is a very valuable tool for software developers.
Bill Gates
#9. This evolution may compromise Java's claim of being simpler than C++, but my guess is that the effort will make Java a better language than it is today.
Bjarne Stroustrup
#10. Now, it's my belief that Python is a lot easier than to teach to students programming and teach them C or C++ or Java at the same time because all the details of the languages are so much harder. Other scripting languages really don't work very well there either.
Guido Van Rossum
#11. Sitting in my favorite coffeehouse with a new notebook and a hot cup of java is my idea of Heaven.
Libba Bray
#12. Coffee comes in five descending stages: Coffee, Java, Jamoke, Joe, and Carbon Remover.
Robert A. Heinlein
#13. We think we're going to be especially strong in platform where we have our two platform brands: our database brand is the Oracle Database 12c, and our programming language brand is this thing called Java.
Larry Ellison
#14. Mark Hammond is working in this area, with Windows Scripting Host. It is definitely an area where Python fits almost perfectly. That's quite independent from Java, actually.
Guido Van Rossum
#15. After all, C++ isn't a perfect match for Java's design aims either.
Bjarne Stroustrup
#16. You should hire the best engineer you can find, regardless of her coding preference, because if she's the best she can down enough Java to C how to make the Python Go.
Eric Schmidt
#17. Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones. Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
Alan Kay
#19. Specifically, my favorite tool in Java is hot code swapping in debug mode, meaning I can edit the code while the game is running and immediately see the results in the running game. This is super great for rapid tweaking.
Markus Persson
#20. In my daily work, I work on very large, complex, distributed systems built out of many Python modules and packages. The focus is very similar to what you find, for example, in Java and, in general, in systems programming languages.
Guido Van Rossum
#21. The most spectacular UFO incident in Indonesia occurred when during the height of President Sukarno's confrontation against Malaysia, UFOs penetrated a well-defended area in Java for two weeks at a stretch, and each time were welcomed with perhaps the heaviest anti-aircraft barrage in history.
Cael Sanderson
#22. Java is to JavaScript as ham is to hamster.
Jeremy Keith
#23. I'm just an observer of Java, and where Microsoft wants to go with C# is too early to tell.
Dennis Ritchie
#24. Travelers describe a tree in the island of Java whose pestiferous exhalations blight every tiny blade of grass within the compass of its shade. So it is with despotism.
Giovanni Ruffini
#25. I fear - as far as I can tell - that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training.
Alan Kay
#26. Java is like a variant of the game of Tetris in which none of the pieces can fill gaps created by the other pieces, so all you can do is pile them up endlessly.
Steve Yegge
#27. The experience of writing something in Java and then trying to figure out - I myself have trouble installing Java on my computer - it's horrible.
Peter Seibel
#28. In fact, in the history of a lot of cultures there is a theater. For example, there are the theaters in Java, [Indonesia] and of that area where they use puppets and they have backgrounds and shadows.
Michelle Stuart
#29. NASA, a U.S. government agency that makes extensive use of Java. One notable example is SkyWatch, an applet that helps stargazers keep an eye out for orbiting satellites.
Rogers Cadenhead
#30. I think it would be a tragic statement of the universe if Java was the last language that swept through.
James Gosling
#31. Keep in mind that JavaScript and Java have almost nothing to do with each other.
Stanley Hoffman
#32. I was interested in Java the beginning, but the problem with Java is you do have to switch your platform.
Miguel De Icaza
#33. If I were to pick a language to use today other than Java, it would be Scala
James Gosling
#34. Web servers are written in C, and if they're not, they're written in Java or C++, which are C derivatives, or Python or Ruby, which are implemented in C.
Rob Pike
#36. It is said in Java that the tiger's hearing is so acute that hunters must keep their nose hairs cut lest the tiger hear the breath whistle through their nostrils.
Peter Matthiessen
#37. (In response to Java) Anybody who thinks a little 9,000-line program that's distributed free and can be cloned by anyone is going to affect anything we do at Microsoft has his head screwed on wrong.
Bill Gates
#38. The apprentice avoids all use of Java classes. The journeyman embraces Java classes. The master knows which classes to embrace and which to avoid.
Michael Fogus
#39. If I had intended for 'Minecraft' to end up on consoles, I wouldn't have developed the game in Java. The decision to port the game to consoles came from a combination of player requests, a desire to play around with the brand on different platforms, and some interesting business deals.
Markus Persson
#40. We [Americans] became a nation of java junkies, wired from dawn to dusk intent on running faster, getting richer, dancing harder, playing longer and getting higher than anybody else.
Stewart Lee Allen
#41. If Sun were to hand the management of Java over to a committee of monkeys, would it be more successful?
Eric Sink
#42. Java is C++ without the guns, knives, and clubs
James Gosling
#43. I think Unix is a great system
especially for running data centers
because it is very mature, very reliable, very scalable. But when I want to go out and populate small devices, I think Java.
Bill Joy
#44. C++ and Java, say, are presumably growing faster than plain C, but I bet C will still be around.
Dennis Ritchie
#45. I need some Starbucks. What about you? (Cassandra)
Always game for java. Give me ground-up beans or give me death. (Katra)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#46. using Spring inside a plain old web container as an alternative stack is a perfectly viable alternative to Java EE 6.
Adam Bien
#47. If you're talking about Java in particular, Python is about the best fit you can get amongst all the other languages. Yet the funny thing is, from a language point of view, JavaScript has a lot in common with Python, but it is sort of a restricted subset.
Guido Van Rossum
#48. Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language, and I believe it was the Sun marketing people who rushed the thing out before it should have gotten out.
Alan Kay
#49. When you write a program for Android, you use the Oracle Java tools for everything, and at the very end, you push a button and say, 'Convert this to Android format.'
Larry Ellison
#50. The sophisticates of Java, the traders of Sumatra, the peasants from the outer islands found no common ground. During siesta time from one to five, the Islamic group met separately, the Nationalist group met separately, the Federalist and Unitarians met separately.
Sukarno
#51. No one wants one language. There are applications when it's appropriate to write something in C rather than in Java. If you want to write something where performance is much more important than extensibility, then you might want to choose C rather than Java.
Brian Behlendorf
#52. The savage, rocky shores of Christmas Island, 200 miles south of Java, in the Indian Ocean. It's November, the moon is in its third quarter, and the sun is just setting. In a few hours from now, on this very shore, a thousand million lives will be launched.
David Attenborough
#53. I love coffee, I love tea, I love the Java Jive, and it loves me. Coffee and tea and the Java and me, A cup, a cup, a cup, a cup, a cup.
Ben Oakland
#54. I did write some code in Java once, but that was the island in Indonesia.
Richard Stallman
#55. What's kept Java from being used as widely as possible is there hasn't been an Open Source implementation of it that's gotten really widespread use.
Brian Behlendorf
#56. I'll let you in on a secret. I don't drink coffee."
I genuinely gasped in horror. "The devil you say. Java is the nectar of the gods. I don't know if I can be with a man who doesn't drink coffee." I knew there was something sinister about him. I had no idea it would be that bad.
Charlie Cochet
#57. Seek the elixir of life often referred to as java,
Darynda Jones
#58. If Java had true garbage collection, most programs would delete themselves upon execution.
Robert Sewell
#59. If the pros at Sun had had a chance to fix Java, the world would be a much more pleasant place. This is not secret knowledge. It's just secret to this pop culture.
Alan Kay
#61. With great power often comes great confusion.
Dan Allen
#62. Only if the human mind had a Garbage Collector.
But then, do we know what references we still hold on?
Sapan Saxena
#63. It is far easier to design a class to be thread-safe than to retrofit it for thread safety later.
Brian Goetz
#64. Sometimes abstraction and encapsulation are at odds with performance - although not nearly as often as many developers believe - but it is always a good practice first to make your code right, and then make it fast.
Brian Goetz
#65. Learning the art of programming, like most other disciplines, consists of first learning the rules and then learning when to break them.
Joshua Bloch
#66. Locking can guarantee both visibility and atomicity; volatile variables can only guarantee visibility.
Brian Goetz
#67. Once an object escapes, you have to assume that another class or thread may, maliciously or carelessly, misuse it. This is a compelling reason to use encapsulation: it makes it practical to analyze programs for correctness and harder to violate design constraints accidentally.
Brian Goetz
#69. Just as it is a good practice to make all fields private unless they need greater visibility, it is a good practice to make all fields final unless they need to be mutable.
Brian Goetz
#70. Whenever more than one thread accesses a given state variable, and one of them might write to it, they all must coordinate their access to it using synchronization.
Brian Goetz
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