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. There's a lot of money to pay for this ... the oil revenues of that country could bring between $50 and $100 billion over the course of the next two or three years ... We're dealing with a country that can really finance its own reconstruction, and relatively soon.

Paul Wolfowitz

#4. I abhor crime novels in which the main character can behave however he or she pleases, or do things that normal people do not do, without those actions having social consequences.

Stieg Larsson

#5. One of the penalties of being a human being is other human beings

Christopher Morley

#6. Hope is the only good that is common to all men; those who have nothing else possess hope still.

Thales

#7. 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

#8. People can demand someone they've never met be arrested and thrown in jail forever because they know it's never going to happen and they're never going to see this person.

Chuck Klosterman

#9. There's definitely evidence that capitalism at its most ruthless rewards psychopathic behavior. When you look at the worst corners of the American health insurance industry or the sub-prime banking market, it really feels like the more psychopathically someone behaves, the more it's rewarded.

Jon Ronson

#10. A safe, affordable and plentiful supply of food is a national security issue.

Doug Ose

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

Alexander Stepanov

#12. 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

#13. I never quite know when I'm not writing. Sometimes my wife comes up to me at a party and says, "Dammit, Thurber, stop writing." She usually catches me in the middle of a paragraph.

James Thurber

#14. 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

#15. Shura, I'm yours. You may not like it today, you may not want it tonight, you may wish for it all to be different now, but it remains, and I remain, as always, only yours. Nothing can change that. Not your wrath, your fists, your body or your death.

Paullina Simons

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

Alexander Stepanov