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

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

It makes my head explode when there are people who think you can do everything in HTML.

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.

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 security.

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