"During the integration meetings between Sun and Oracle, where we were being grilled about the patent situation between Sun and Google, we could see the Oracle lawyer's eyes sparkle."

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Source : "Oracle-Google Suit Attacks Open Source Software" by David Kravets, www.wired.com. August 13, 2010.

James Gosling

#Eye Quotes #Google Quotes #Patents Quotes

“I think everything we do, on one level or another, as writers, most of our writing is informed by our world view.”
“When war comes, two things happen - profits go way, way up and all perishables go way, way down. There becomes a market for them.”
“In an infinite multiverse, there is no such thing as fiction.”
“We are the great grassroots campaign of the modern era, built from mousepads, shoe leather and hope.”
“The mayor of Newark, N.J. wants to set up a citywide program to improve residents' health. The health care program would consist of a bus ticket out of Newark.”
“Mothers sometimes are overly possessive, but not all children allow themselves to be possessed.”

Source : Robert Bloch (2010). “Psycho: A Novel”, p.7, The Overlook Press
“Your house is all about routine, not the unexpected events of your life.”
“[O]ur sages in the great [constitutional] convention... intended our government should be a republic which differs more widely from a democracy than a democracy from a despotism. The rigours of a despotism often... oppress only a few, but it is the very essence and nature of a democracy, for a faction claiming to oppress a minority, and that minority the chief owners of the property and truest lovers of their country.”

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