James Gosling Quotes

Writing software is a very intense, very personal thing. You have to have time to work your way through it, to understand it. Then debug it.

It's something special being able to build a program up.

Software is a great combination between artistry and engineering.

I like writing code. I like building product. I like making things that people like.

If you know how to make software, then you can create big things.

I designed and developed an unbelievable number of applications early in my life.

I had almost rewritten all of the display code for windows, and that was when I gave up.

I fix things now and then, more often tweak HTML and make scripts to do things.

I kind of 'code-sketch,' where I get started with a project by actually writing the code for it and getting something up on the screen. Then I play around with it and see if it's any fun and change the parts that aren't.

As software engineers trained to turn ambiguity into absolutes and fuzzy requirements into ones and zeros, we had a 'eureka' moment when we realized that our training had broader, real-world applications.

Depending on the kind of code you write, depending on the kind of ideas you have, you can be creative in problem-solving and you can really make things work in a very gratifying way.

I would play games long enough to discover what games were doing and how they were doing it. And then I'd spend the rest of my time building.

Listening, Testing, Coding, Designing. That's all there is to software. Anyone who tells you different is selling something.

The hardest part of the software task is arriving at a complete and consistent specification, and much of the essence of building a program is in fact the debugging of the specification.

I am a programmer.

I'm really good at making software for publishing.

The process of software development doesn't feel any better than it did a generation ago.

Being an app developer isn't at all like working at Apple. There is this huge haystack of apps, and even a very shiny needle can get lost in that haystack.

The critical thing in developing software is not the program, it's the design. It is translating understanding of user needs into something that can be realized as a computer program.

Software Engineering might be science; but that's not what I do. I'm a hacker, not an engineer.

Macintosh felt like a system. As I learned more, I felt like I was able to guess how new things would work. I felt like the bugs in my programs were more my bugs and not things I misunderstood.

I started to write a new editor not too long ago and had it about half done after two days.

Before I became a game designer, I was a software engineer.

It was used for decades to describe talented computer enthusiasts, people whose skill at using computers to solve technical problems and puzzles was - and is - respected and admired by others possessing similar technical skills.

People think that computer science is the art of geniuses but the actual reality is the opposite, just many people doing things that build on eachother, like a wall of mini stones.