Programming Quote by 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

“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

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 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

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

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

— Alan Kay

“We sort of understood abstractly the idea that there are only two kinds of software projects: failures and future legacy horrors.”

— Peter Weinberger

Many computer scientists have fallen into the trap of trying to define languages like George Orwell's Newspeak, in which it is impossible to think…

— Larry Wall

“Spaghetti code Multiple pages of nested if clauses and for loops with a lot of copy-pasted procedural code and no proper segmentation are known…

— Kenneth Reitz

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

— Alexander Stepanov