People always half quote Kay on C++. He says "I came up with the term object-oriented, and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind", but if you listen to the

People always half quote Kay on C++. He says "I came up with the term object-oriented, and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind", but if you listen to the actual talk this comes up in, he immediately follows with (slight paraphrasing here) "Of course I'm not sure I had smalltalk in mind either"