Programming Quote by Paul Graham

“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 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

“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

Design Patterns - Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software

— Erich Gamma

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

— Alan Kay

“Abstraction is useful in software because it allows the programmer to: • hide irrelevant detail, and concentrate on essentials. • present a “black box”…

— Peter van der Linden

Another trick in software is to avoid rewriting the software by using a piece that's already been written, so called component approach which the…

— Bill Gates

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

— Alan Kay

Object-oriented design is the roman numerals of computing.

— Rob Pike

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

“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