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.

I think it would be a tragic statement of the universe if Java was the last language that swept through.

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

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.

An API that isn't comprehensible isn't usable.

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.

Cats don't need to be possessed

Whatever happens to you, once you have hope you will survive.

Very little is needed for everything to be upset and ruined, only a slight lapse in reason.

I think that one of the benefits of optimism and idealism is that they lead you into things you would never have tried if you'd let yourself imagine how hard it was going to turn out to be.

We always seek to find the enemy when in reality, the enemy is really us".

Hatred - The anger of the weak.

The great thing about change, is that it absolutely, positively, always means things are going to get even better. Even when you don't know how.

Agesilaus being invited once to hear a man who admirably imitated the nightingale, he declined, saying he had heard the nightingale itself.

Pieces and parts were always easier to process. The full picture, the entire story, was another thing entirely. But you just never knew. Sometimes, people could surprise you.

Integrity, probity, ethics and transparency is needed but most important is the culture of discipline