Quotes About Object Oriented Programming

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. 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

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

Paul Graham

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

Edsger Dijkstra

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. Parades should be classed as a Nuisance and participants should be subject to a term in prison. They stop more work, inconvenience more people, stop more traffic, cause more accidents, entail more expense, and commit and cause I don't remember the other hundred misdemeanors.

Will Rogers

#11. It's an uncommonly dangerous thing to be left without any padding against the shafts of disease.

George Eliot

#12. So when I think of autumn, I think of somebody with hands who does not want me to die.

Toni Morrison

#13. As much as it hurts, I would rather miss someone than hit someone.

Brian Celio

#14. the use of profanity for effect to be a practice of the weak-minded

Terry Fallis

#15. Prayer honors God, acknowledges His being, exalts His power, adores His providence, secures His aid.

Edward McKendree Bounds

#16. 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

#17. I had some connections from the newspapers that I did work with up there, so there was a newspaper publisher in Hollywood, and they promised me work and so on.

Marc Davis

#18. Fear is a relative thing; its effects are relative to power.

Sarah Hall

#19. Happiness is not the reward of virtue, but is virtue itself; nor do we delight in happiness because we restrain from our lusts; but on the contrary, because we delight in it, therefore we are able to restrain them.

Baruch Spinoza

#20. 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

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

Alan Kay

#22. Anything forbidden takes on a significance that draws us into its embrace.

Chloe Thurlow

#23. Some people simply seem to know how to live. They know when to seize the day, when to go with the flow, and when to row for dear life.

Nel Newman

#24. Do not let your problems prevent you from knocking on the doors of possibilities.

Debasish Mridha