What he did say : « I don’t think object-oriented programming is a structuring paradigm that meets my standards of elegance » (https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/E

What he did say : « I don’t think object-oriented programming is a structuring paradigm that meets my standards of elegance » (https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD12xx/EWD1284.html https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD12xx/E...) I guess some decided that Dijkstra didn't have enough inflammatory quotes attached to his name and fabricated the other one.