Alexander Stepanov Quotes

#1. I still believe in abstraction, but now I know that one ends with abstraction, not starts with it

Alexander Stepanov

#2. Complexity assertions have to be part of the interface

Alexander Stepanov

#3. Good Americans, when they die, go to Paris.

Thomas Gold Appleton

#4. The most perfect melodic shapes are found in Mozart; he has the lightness of touch which is the true objective ... Listen to the remarkable expansion of a Mozart melody, to Cherubino's 'Voi che sapete', for instance. You think it is coming to an end, but it goes farther, even farther.

Richard Strauss

#5. 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 their state are objects. And then there are things that are not objects. A binary search is not an object. It is an algorithm

Alexander Stepanov

#6. I have no political ambitions for myself or my children.

Joseph P. Kennedy

#7. Only a fool makes threats, and only another fool feels threatened.

Paulo Coelho

#8. Good software results from the proper organization of components, not from syntactic or semantic restrictions. Meanings

Alexander Stepanov

#9. I spent years trying to find some use for inheritance and virtuals, before I understood why that mechanism was fundamentally flawed and should not be used

Alexander Stepanov

#10. To fight demons, one must assume the guise of a demon

Elizabeth Hoyt

#11. He was looking for programs on which he might be allowed to appear. But it was too early in the evening for programs that allowed people with peculiar opinions to speak out. It was only a little after eight o'clock, so all the shows were about silliness or murder.

Kurt Vonnegut

#12. No one tells us, girls who don't go on dates, that remembering can be almost as good as what actually happens.

Kathryn Stockett

#13. To see how to make something more general, you need to start with something concrete. In particular, you need to understand the specifics of a particular domain to discover the right abstractions.

Alexander A. Stepanov

#14. The consequence of loving someone more than they love you is hate.

Stevie J. Cole

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

Alexander Stepanov