A Quote by James Gosling

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

James Gosling

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Clubs Guns Java Knives Without

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James Gosling
Canadian - Scientist
Born: May 19, 1955

I am not anti-gun. I'm pro-knife. Consider the merits of the knife. In the first place, you have to catch up with someone in order to stab him. A general substitution of knives for guns would promote physical fitness. We'd turn into a whole nation of great runners. Plus, knives don't ricochet. And people are seldom killed while cleaning their knives.

Molly Ivins

The Bar Association can do so much in teaching people how to resolve conflicts without knives and guns and fists.

Janet Reno

I woke up early this mornin' with a new state of mind/ A creative way to rhyme without usin' knives and guns

Kanye West

When the Negro finds the courage to be free, he faces dogs and guns and clubs and fire hoses totally unafraid, and the white men with those dogs, guns, clubs and fire hoses see that the Negro they have traditionally called "boy" has become a man.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

I have a weird thing with knives. I don't like knives very much. Like when my parents are cooking in the kitchen and using knives to chop vegetables, I can't be in the same room. For whatever reason, knives just terrify me.

Maika Monroe

I've worked in a mortuary and seen the consequences of what guns and knives do to people.

Salim Akil

I've had people turn up to book signings with knives, with guns.

Patricia Cornwell

I said, "OK, Ammon [Hennacy], I will try that." He said, "You came into the world armed to the teeth. With an arsenal of weapons, weapons of privilege, economic privilege, sexual privilege, racial privilege. You want to be a pacifist, you're not just going to have to give up guns, knives, clubs, hard, angry words, you are going to have lay down the weapons of privilege and go into the world completely disarmed."

Utah Phillips

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

Miguel de Icaza

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

Hockey is a fast, body-contact game played by men with clubs in their hands and knives laced to their feet.

Paul Gallico

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

On the one hand, the guns were there to help capture the imagination of the people. But more important, since we knew that you couldn't observe the police without guns, we took our guns with us to let the police know that we have an equalizer.