“From the point of view of the people who are using the platform, one o...” — James Gosling Quote

From the point of view of the people who are using the platform, one of the most valuable things about Java is the consistency, the interoperability.

The way that NetBeans is architected, it's not so much a tool as a tool environment.

When you interview at Google, they don't tell you what the job is. You get hired for a pool and the reason they do it that way is they don't want outsiders learning their secrets in the interview process.

I didn't do programming language stuff in college at all.

My impression is that a really, really high-order concern for the whole development community is interoperability and consistency.

Our children are counting on us to provide two things: consistency and structure. Children need parents who say what they mean, mean what they say, and do what they say they are going to do.

Swag is consistency.

Earlier in the shorter format, I was not consistent, so I was not getting noticed. But I always believed that I had the game to do it. It was just about consistency.

Tropical storms need consistency to be able to grow, and differing winds do not allow it.

Numbers don't lie. I think it's pretty cut and dry what consistency is.