James Gosling Quotes

There are always good parts. They may not pay what you want, and they may not have as many days' work as you want, they may not have the billing that you want, they may not have a lot of things, but - the content of the role itself - I find there are many roles.

Although I receive a small salary from Apple, I do virtually no real work at the company.

Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?

No, one of the great things about my three-year deal is that it's year-round. They've offered me an opportunity to cover a lot of things in the offseason, too.

Most of the good people of my generation... had offers to become editors, but the thought of going inside was just absolutely horrifying.

Most people have bosses who hire them to fill a slot in the work chart and to do what they are told. And most people who are doing what they are told feel safe; it feels reliable.

I can't get hired in a studio movie. Everything is so uphill.

A guy gave me a job at an information booth - no questions asked.

I once dated someone who worked at McDonald's. She came up and asked if I wanted a Big Mac.

Entire families work for Xerox.

Go work at the post office or Starbucks if you want balance in your life.

Tell me who you want to see on the Left, and I'll hire them. If you give me a big name that's out there, that's floating around and wants work, I'd be happy to hire them.

A lot of young people who I employ expect a raise after three months or expect not to have to put in more work than what's in their job description.

It's not like a corporate job where the more you accumulate on your resume and the more hours you put in, the higher up you get; it's simply not the case. That being said, if I had known that and known what kind of career I'd get into, I still would have pursued it.

I used to just take every job that seemed relatively appealing. But now I take a job and it's in the trades the next day - it feels like people are watching and waiting to see what you do, and when you do take a job, attention is noted.

My job is to help more people have jobs.

I reject the idea that any job is too hard or too dirty for American workers to do. American workers just expect and demand to be paid a decent wage.

When you first start out, you are just happy to get a job, any job. And as time goes on, either you move forward or screech to a halt.

Good and productive labor is valuable, and it doesn't mean you have to have a fancy job description. You don't have to become rich. You can be ordinary. Happiness lies there. Do good work, create good work for others.

I don't know who these people are who think they can just move to L.A. and get a job the next day - that does not happen.

Executives are rarely comfortable speaking on the record, particularly in secretive Silicon Valley companies.

If we go in the Middle East, and we start to recruit there, and we see that all of a sudden there's this massive interest, there's massive depth of people that we feel have the ability to succeed, then we would go there first - or quicker.

It's not just hours and pay that are important anymore. People want to know what the company is like, what the culture is.

I don't necessarily think that when I graduated college, I had a plan to work at an ad agency. I had a plan in terms of getting the best job I could, like, just whatever normal job.

My job description? It is many things; it is a whole universe created around the things that I like.