57 Java Programming Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

Programming is a skill best acquired by practice and example rather than from books. — Alan Turing

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

The only way to learn a new programming language is by writing programs in it. — Dennis Ritchie

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

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

Controlling complexity is the essence of computer programming. — Brian Kernighan

Web programming is the science of coming up with increasingly complicated ways of concatenating strings. — Greg Brockman

Programming allows you to think about thinking, and while debugging you learn learning. — Nicholas Negroponte

Programming is not a zero-sum game. Teaching something to a fellow programmer doesn't take it away from you. I'm happy to share what I can, because I'm in it for the love of programming. — John Carmack

There was something amazingly enticing about programming. — Vinton Cerf

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

The most spectacular UFO incident in Indonesia occurred when during the height of President Sukarno's confrontation against Malaysia, UFOs penetrated a well-defended area in Java for two weeks at a stretch, and each time were welcomed with perhaps the heaviest anti-aircraft barrage in history. — Cael Sanderson

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

Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones. Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS. — Alan Kay

I fear - as far as I can tell - that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training. — Alan Kay

People who were also traders were also men of Sufism, as we see around Java, people who were outwardly trading but were also men of very high spiritual character. Otherwise no trader would be able to convert a person from one religion to another. It was because they were men of spiritual character. — Seyyed Hossein Nasr

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

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

Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language, and I believe it was the Sun marketing people who rushed the thing out before it should have gotten out. — Alan Kay

In my daily work, I work on very large, complex, distributed systems built out of many Python modules and packages. The focus is very similar to what you find, for example, in Java and, in general, in systems programming languages. — Guido van Rossum

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Now back in 1927 an American socialist, Norman Thomas, six times candidate for president on the Socialist Party ticket, said the American people would never vote for socialism. But he said under the name of liberalism the American people will adopt every fragment of the socialist program. — Ronald Reagan

Patients are patients because they are out of rapport with their own unconscious... Patients are people who have had too much programming - so much outside programming that they have lost touch with their inner selves. — Milton H. Erickson

Don't just buy a new video game, make one. Don't just download the latest app, help design it. Don't just play on your phone, program it. — Barack Obama

If you think you understand quantum mechanics, you don't understand quantum mechanics. — Richard P. Feynman

Young man, in mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them. — John Von Neumann

Unemployment benefits are creating jobs faster than practically any other program — Nancy Pelosi

If we die, we want people to accept it. We are in a risky business, and we hope that if anything happens to us, it will not delay the program. The conquest of space is worth the risk of life. — Gus Grissom

Truth is much too complicated to allow anything but approximations. - John Von Neumann

Truth is much too complicated to allow anything but approximations. — John Von Neumann

Learning is never done without errors and defeat. — Vladimir Lenin

Nothing has ever been achieved by the person who says, ‘It can’t be done.’ - Eleanor Roosevelt

Nothing has ever been achieved by the person who says, ‘It can’t be done.’ — Eleanor Roosevelt

Love Programming Quotes

I also love Mole, the unsung hero of reality programming. - Kathy Griffin

I also love Mole, the unsung hero of reality programming. — Kathy Griffin

Experience comes from bad judgment. — Mark Twain

We might hope to change the world through better, bigger programs to stop global warming, but global warming will not end unless people become less greedy and less wasteful, gaining a fresh vision of what it means to love our global neighbor. — Shane Claiborne

I love all the shows that encourage people to love, appreciate and help animals. There are more programs about animals than ever, and that pleases me. — Doris Day

I've always loved airplanes and flight. The space program was really important to me as a kid. I still have a photo of Armstrong and Aldrin on the moon in my living room. — Bill Nye

Years of cultural programming have taught us to love some animals while eating others, when in all reality, all animals are sentient beings with the capacity to feel, both physically and emotionally. — Kat Von D

Recovering from the suicide of a loved one, you need all the help you can get, so I very much recommend a meditation program. The whole picture of how to recover from this has to do with body, mind, and spirit. That's applicable to any kind of depression. — Judy Collins

I've programmed myself musically to come up with love-feeling tracks that are romantic, sexy, but classy, all in one. And that's the challenge. Once I create that music, then the lyrical content starts to come - you know, the stories and things like that. — R. Kelly

You must learn to love, respect and believe in yourself. To accomplish this, begin by restructuring your current self-programming. — Marshall Sylver

When I was a kid, I was a bit of a space geek. I loved the space program and all things NASA. I would read books about our solar system; I had pictures of the Space Shuttle on my bedroom wall. And yes, I even went to Space Camp. — Simon Sinek

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More Java Programming Quotes

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. — James Gosling

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

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

While Microsoft does not share all of Oracle's ambitions for Java, we agree that it is a very valuable tool for software developers. — Bill Gates

(In response to Java) Anybody who thinks a little 9,000-line program that's distributed free and can be cloned by anyone is going to affect anything we do at Microsoft has his head screwed on wrong. — Bill Gates

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

When you write a program for Android, you use the Oracle Java tools for everything, and at the very end, you push a button and say, 'Convert this to Android format.' — Larry Ellison

We think we're going to be especially strong in platform where we have our two platform brands: our database brand is the Oracle Database 12c, and our programming language brand is this thing called Java. — Larry Ellison

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