Program Quote by Bjarne Stroustrup

“I don’t predict the demise of object-oriented programming, by the way. Object-oriented programming offers a sustainable way to write spaghetti code.”

— Paul Graham

“Object-oriented programming offers a sustainable way to write spaghetti code. It lets you accrete programs as a series of patches.”

— Paul Graham

Object-oriented programming as it emerged in Simula 67 allows software structure to be based on real-world structures, and gives programmers a powerful way to…

— David Gelernter

Object-oriented programming is an exceptionally bad idea which could only have originated in California.

— Edsger Dijkstra

I made up the term "object-oriented," and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.

— Alan Kay

Object-oriented programming aficionados think that everything is an object.... this [isn't] so. There are things that are objects. Things that have state and change…

— Alexander Stepanov

Any program is only as good as it is useful.

— Linus Torvalds

I invented the term 'Object-Oriented', and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.

— Alan Kay

I think that object orientedness is almost as much of a hoax as artificial intelligence.

— Alexander Stepanov

I used to be enamored of object-oriented programming. I'm now finding myself leaning toward believing that it is a plot designed to destroy joy.

— Eric Allman

“the move toward object-oriented programming, where applications could be fashioned out of small, predefined blocks of code, was a lot like building with LEGO.”

— David Robertson

C++ is a pile of crap.

— Theo de Raadt