#oop quotes

I think the lack of reusability comes in object-oriented languages, not in functional languages. Because 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.

Write shy code — modules that don't reveal anything unnecessary to other modules and that don't rely on other modules' implementations.

Objects are abstractions of processing. Threads are abstractions of schedule.

Programmers must avoid leaving false clues that obscure the meaning of code.

Object-oriented design is the roman numerals of computing.

In the one and only true way. The object-oriented version of 'Spaghetti code' is, of course, 'Lasagna code'. (Too many layers).

The object-oriented model makes it easy to build up programs by accretion. What this often means, in practice, is that it provides a structured way to write spaghetti code.