Quotes and Sayings About Java

I fear -as far as I can tell- that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training. I've heard complaints from even mighty Stanford University with its illustrious faculty that basically the undergraduate computer science program is little more than Java certification.
-- Alan Kay

#Training #Degrees #Java

I love coffee, I love tea, I love the Java Jive, and it loves me. Coffee and tea and the Java and me, A cup, a cup, a cup, a cup, a cup.
-- Ben Oakland

#Coffee #Tea #Java

This evolution may compromise Java's claim of being simpler than C++, but my guess is that the effort will make Java a better language than it is today.
-- Bjarne Stroustrup

#Effort #Java #May

After all, C++ isn't a perfect match for Java's design aims either
-- Bjarne Stroustrup

#Perfect #Design #Java

However, when Java is promoted as the sole programming language, its flaws and limitations become serious.
-- Bjarne Stroustrup

#Java #Serious #Language

Java isn't platform independent; it is a platform
-- Bjarne Stroustrup

#Independent #Java #Platforms

C++ and Java, say, are presumably growing faster than plain C, but I bet C will still be around.
-- Dennis Ritchie

#Growing #Java #Faster

I'm just an observer of Java, and where Microsoft wants to go with C# is too early to tell.
-- Dennis Ritchie

#Microsoft #Java #Want

Travelers describe a tree in the island of Java whose pestiferous exhalations blight every tiny blade of grass within the compass of its shade. So it is with despotism.
-- Giovanni Ruffini

#Islands #Tree #Java

Now, it's my belief that Python is a lot easier than to teach to students programming and teach them C or C++ or Java at the same time because all the details of the languages are so much harder. Other scripting languages really don't work very well there either.
-- Guido van Rossum

#Python #Details #Java

Mark Hammond is working in this area, with Windows Scripting Host. It is definitely an area where Python fits almost perfectly. That's quite independent from Java, actually.
-- Guido van Rossum

#Independent #Python #Java

Java is C++ without the guns, knives, and clubs
-- James Gosling

#Gun #Knives #Java

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

#Would Be #Use #Java

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

#Thinking #Would Be #Java

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

#Java #Problem #Platforms

A class, in Java, is where we teach objects how to behave.
-- Richard E. Pattis

#Learning #Class #Java

I did write some code in Java once, but that was the island in Indonesia.
-- Richard Stallman

#Writing #Islands #Java

Coffee comes in five descending stages: Coffee, Java, Jamoke, Joe, and Carbon Remover.
-- Robert A. Heinlein

#Coffee #Java #Stage

If Java had true garbage collection, most programs would delete themselves upon execution.
-- Robert Sewell

#Java #Garbage #Execution

If Sun were to hand the management of Java over to a committee of monkeys, would it be more successful?
-- Eric Sink

#Successful #Hands #Java