I was interested in Java the beginning, but the problem with Java is you do have to switch your platform.

There is a point in your life when you realize that you have written enough destructors.

When it comes to .NET they've done a really outstanding job.

Some scientists use TeX or LatEX but for most people Word is the thing that writers use these days.

We cannot choose one desktop over the other - Gnome or KDE - because there's users for both code bases.

We've been using C and C++ way too much - they're nice, but they're very close to the machine and what we wanted was to empower regular users to build applications for Linux.

I was interested in Java the beginning, but the problem with Java is you do have to switch your platform.