Complexes Quote by David Gelernter

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

— Paul Graham

“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

Object-oriented design is the roman numerals of computing.

— Rob Pike

“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

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

— Alan Kay

Certainly not every good program is object-oriented, and not every object-oriented program is good

— Bjarne Stroustrup

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

— Alan Kay

Design Patterns - Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software

— Erich Gamma

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

The structure of a software system provides the ecology in which code is born, matures, and dies. A well-designed habitat allows for the successful…

— Richard E. Pattis

We have also obtained a glimpse of another crucial idea about languages and program design. This is the approach of statified design, the notion…

— Hal Abelson

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