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

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.

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.

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