During the integration meetings between Sun and Oracle, where we were being grilled about the patent situation between Sun and Google, we could see the Oracle lawyer's eyes sparkle.
James GoslingYou know, most people in the open-source world who use open-source software don't actually do builds themselves - those people just download the binaries. And so we expect that the big enterprise people will just do that and we will certainly be providing binaries that have been through full industrial-strength QA, that have been through all the conformance testing.
James GoslingThe real payoffs you never understand. You should just give good people money and tell them to do good things.
James GoslingIt makes my head explode when there are people who think you can do everything in HTML.
James Gosling