"An API that isn't comprehensible isn't usable."

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Source : "A Conversation with James Gosling". Interview with Bill Venners, www.artima.com. Jun 9, 2003.

James Gosling

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“That's where the future lies, in the youth of today.”
“What draws me to the theatre, and what appealed to me about Too Much Light, is that you have no idea what's going to happen. That's the most exciting part of theatre, it's never the same. If it were, it would be like watching a movie.”
“I think seeing happens partly through the eyes, but not entirely.”
“You have to go out of your way as a suspense novelist to find situations where the protagonists are somewhat helpless and in real danger.”
“I said to myself a long time ago that I didn't want to be that hanging-on-for-too-long, aging-rock-musician guy, and that's why I sort of got away from music.”

Source : "Jane's addiction ex=bassist Eric Avery recovers with Solo Lp, calls Billy Morgan 'inspiring'" by Chris Harris, www.mtv.com. December 26, 2007.
“Amores Perros" and "Once Were Warriors" had a tremendous visceral quality that really influenced me.”

Source : "Meet the 2011 Sundance Filmmakers | “Mad Bastards” Director Brendan Fletcher". www.indiewire.com. January 11, 2011.
“I am haunted by the ghost of my father, I think that should allow me to quote Hamlet as much as I please.”
“But the body fails us and the mirror knows, and we no longer insist that the gray hush be carried off its surface by the cloth, for we have run to fat, and wrinkles encircle the eyes and notch the neck where the skin wattles, and the flesh of the arms hangs loose like an overlarge sleeve, veins thicken like ropes and empurple the body as though they had been drawn there by a pen, freckles darken, liver spots appear, the hairah, the hair is exhausted and gray and lusterless, in weary rolls like cornered lint.”

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