Bananas Quote by Joe Armstrong

“Joe Armstrong: I think the lack of reusablility comes in object-oriented languages, not in functional languages. Because the problem with object-oriented languages is they've…

— Peter Seibel

The idea is that the object has a language unto itself.

— Anish Kapoor

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

— Bjarne Stroustrup

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 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

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 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

“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

A language that doesn't have everything is actually easier to program in than some that do

— Dennis Ritchie

I think language is a system that we have devised to negotiate a series of more amorphous entities. It's a layer you can use…

— Blake Butler