Computers Quote by Rob Pike Download Open image “Object-oriented design is the roman numerals of computing.” — Rob Pike ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.0 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Computers Computing Design Engineering Inspirational Numerals Objects Roman numerals
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 Copy Share Image
I made up the term "object-oriented," and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind. — Alan Kay Copy Share Image
I invented the term 'Object-Oriented', and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind. — Alan Kay Copy Share Image
For me, the concept of design is more than object-oriented; it encompasses the design of processes, systems and institutions as well. Increasingly, we need… — John Seely Brown Copy Share Image
We have also obtained a glimpse of another crucial idea about languages and program design. This is the approach of statified design, the notion… — Hal Abelson Copy Share Image
“Object-oriented programming offers a sustainable way to write spaghetti code. It lets you accrete programs as a series of patches.” — Paul Graham Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Overemphasis of efficiency leads to an unfortunate circularity in design: for reasons of efficiency early programming languages reflected the characteristics of the early computers,… — Kenneth E. Iverson Copy Share Image
Certainly not every good program is object-oriented, and not every object-oriented program is good — Bjarne Stroustrup Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
Eventually, I decided that thinking was not getting me very far and it was time to try building. — Rob Pike Copy Share Image
Productivity is most important by engineering management rules, but enjoyment is most important for engineers. One stems from the other. — Rob Pike Copy Share Image
When there is no type hierarchy you don't have to manage the type hierarchy. — Rob Pike Copy Share Image
Procedure names should reflect what they do; function names should reflect what they return — Rob Pike Copy Share Image
Why would you have a language that is not theoretically exciting? Because it's very useful. — Rob Pike Copy Share Image
If POSIX threads are a good thing, perhaps I don't want to know what they're better than. — Rob Pike Copy Share Image
Such is modern computing: everything simple is made too complicated because it's easy to fiddle with; everything complicated stays complicated because it's hard to… — Rob Pike Copy Share Image
Rule 1. You can't tell where a program is going to spend its time. Bottlenecks occur in surprising places, so don't try to second… — Rob Pike Copy Share Image
A smart terminal is not a smartass terminal, but rather a terminal you can educate. — Rob Pike Copy Share Image
I don't understand why we're all connected wirelessly via a little machine that goes in our pocket, to everybody in the world, and you… — Jon M. Chu Copy Share Image
“Probably it goes without saying, but time machine guys don't get a lot of action. Had a one night stand with something cute a… — Charles Yu Copy Share Image
The time that one gains cannot be accumulated in a storehouse; it is contradictory to want to save up existence, which, the fact is,… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Issac:"I dislike living in a world without Augustus Waters." Computer: "I don't understand-" Issac: "Me neither. Pause — John Green Copy Share Image
“Note found in the patron suggestion box: "You have SIGNS up near the computers that say BE QUIET, but people don't be quiet. They… — Gina Sheridan Copy Share Image
“You weren't born to be a cog in the giant industrial machine. You were trained to become a cog. There's an alternative available to… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
If you stood me in a costume next to a computer graphic of the same-looking character, I think there would be a difference. And… — Warwick Davis Copy Share Image
The corporate state is an immensely powerful machine, ordered, legalistic, rational, yet utterly out of human control, wholly and perfectly indifferent to any human… — Charles A. Reich Copy Share Image
The popular mind often pictures gigantic flying machines speeding across the Atlantic carrying innumerable passengers in a way analogous to our modern steam ships.… — William Henry Pickering Copy Share Image
“Alan Turing proposed the Turing Test: a computer is intelligent if you can't tell it from a human when you talk with it. No… — CJS Hayward Copy Share Image
Computers can be taught that certain tune or certain chords changes will sound pleasant together, but I don't think it's going to reach a… — Bonobo Copy Share Image