Object Oriented Quotes

#1. Design Patterns - Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software

Erich Gamma

#2. 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 simplify the design and construction of complex programs.

David Gelernter

#3. The best way to do research is to make a radical assumption and then assume it's true. For me, I use the assumption that object oriented programming is the way to go.

Bill Joy

#4. Object-oriented programming is an exceptionally bad idea which could only have originated in California.

Edsger Dijkstra

#5. The combination of threads, remote-procedure-call interfaces, and heavyweight object-oriented design is especially dangerous ... if you are ever invited onto a project that is supposed to feature all three, fleeing in terror might well be an appropriate reaction.

Eric S. Raymond

#6. Object-oriented design is the roman numerals of computing.

Rob Pike

#7. Object-oriented programming offers a sustainable way to write spaghetti code. It lets you accrete programs as a series of patches.

Paul Graham

#8. But while you can always write 'spaghetti code' in a procedural language, object-oriented languages used poorly can add meatballs to your spaghetti.

Andrew Hunt

#9. PHP as an object oriented programming language should be judged by how well it does the job, not on a preconceived notion of what a scripting language should or shouldn't do.

Peter Lavin

#10. Certainly not every good program is object-oriented, and not every object-oriented program is good.

Bjarne Stroustrup

#11. 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

#12. 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 to think about designing the types of institutions we need to get things done in this rapidly accelerating world.

John Seely Brown

#13. Object-oriented programming had boldly promised "to model the world." Well, the world is a scary place where bad things happen for no apparent reason, and in this narrow sense I concede that OO does model the world.

Dave Fancher

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

Alan Kay

#15. The problem is that when many products are produced, the majority of time and effort go into the engineering phase and not into the design phase. Object-oriented

Matt Weisfeld

#16. Code without tests is bad code. It doesn't matter how well written it is; it doesn't matter how pretty or object-oriented or well-encapsulated it is. With tests, we can change the behavior of our code quickly and verifiably. Without them, we really don't know if our code is getting better or worse.

Michael C. Feathers

#17. The problem with object-oriented languages is they've got all this implicit environment that they carry around with them. You wanted a banana but what you got was a gorilla holding the banana and the entire jungle.

Joe Armstrong

#18. 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 latest term for this in the most advanced form is what's called Object Oriented Programming.

Bill Gates

#19. 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

#20. Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet

Alan Kay

#21. Every dependency is like a little dot of glue that causes your class to stick to the things it touches.

Sandi Metz

#22. Funny how morality, which always seems so black and white can be influenced so completely by what you were raised to believe.

Neal Shusterman

#23. The monsters aren't always in the closet or under the bed. Sometimes they're right in front of you, only everyone thinks they're the good guys.

Barbara Freethy

#24. Nobody stopped believing that other people were more guilty than they were. Why do people have so much trouble seeing their own faults but such an easy time seeing everyone else's?

Carol Plum-Ucci

#25. Never walk away from someone who deserves help; your hand is God's hand for that person.

Eugene H. Peterson

#26. But I tell you now that it's not too late
no matter how deep the wound. (Regarding forgiveness)

Jan Karon

#27. Mac blinked. That smile should be registered as a deadly weapon.

Kaje Harper

#28. Inevitably people will get tired of me. People get tired of everyone except Jimmy Stewart. I'm not saying Jimmy Stewart would get tired of me, I'm just saying people will never get tired of Jimmy Stewart.

Michael Shannon

#29. All concord's born of contraries.

Ben Jonson

#30. Write with honesty and don't worry about the feelings of others, because no matter what you say, they'll hate you anyway.

Isabel Allende

#31. I guess it's true what they say," observed Jace. "There are no straight men in the trenches."
"That's atheists, jackass," said Simon furiously. "There are no atheists in the trenches.

Cassandra Clare

#32. Silence is the language of nature and beauty where perception and feelings are the only reality.

Debasish Mridha

#33. All knowledge is oriented toward some object and is influenced in its approach by the nature of the object with which it is pre-occupied. But the mode of approach to the object to be known is dependent upon the nature of the knower.

Karl Mannheim

#34. Every one in this world has as much as they can do in caring for themselves, and few have leisure really to think of their neighbours distresses, however they may delight their tongues with talking of them.

Hester Lynch Piozzi