Engineering Quote by David Robertson

“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

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

— Alan Kay

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

— Alan Kay

My explorations of the technical world started with Legos, with which I was quite creative in constructing moving objects with the basic building blocks…

— Wolfgang Ketterle

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

— Edsger Dijkstra

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

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

— Bjarne Stroustrup

“Programming is the art of doing one thing at a time”

— Michael Feathers

There was something amazingly enticing about programming.

— Anonymous

Nevertheless, I consider OOP as an aspect of programming in the large; that is, as an aspect that logically follows programming in the small…

— Niklaus Wirth