Aspect Quote by Niklaus Wirth

“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

Defining OO as based on the use of class hierarchies and virtual functions is also practical in that it provides some guidance as to…

— 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

Programming is an explanatory activity.

— Roman Harper

To me programming is more than an important practical art. It is also a gigantic undertaking in the foundations of knowledge.

— Grace Hopper

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

— Alan Kay

The art of programming is the art of organizing complexity.

— Edsger Dijkstra

Controlling complexity is the essence of computer programming.

— Brian Kernighan

“Programmers are always surrounded by complexity; we cannot avoid it. Our applications are complex because we are ambitious to use our computers in ever…

— C.A.R. Hoare

Programming is how we talk to the machines that are increasingly woven into our lives. If you aren't a programmer, you're like one of…

— Tim O'Reilly

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