Stepanov Quotes

#1. I still believe in abstraction, but now I know that one ends with abstraction, not starts with it - Author: Alexander Stepanov

#2. Complexity assertions have to be part of the interface - Author: 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. - Author: 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. - Author: Stieg Larsson

#5. One of the penalties of being a human being is other human beings - Author: Christopher Morley

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

#10. A safe, affordable and plentiful supply of food is a national security issue. - Author: Doug Ose

#11. Good software results from the proper organization of components, not from syntactic or semantic restrictions. Meanings - Author: 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 - Author: 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. - Author: 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. - Author: 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. - Author: Paullina Simons

#16. I think that object orientedness is almost as much of a hoax as artificial intelligence. - Author: Alexander Stepanov