Kent Beck Quotes

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• Optimism is an occupational hazard of programming; feedback is the treatment.
• I'm not a great programmer; I'm just a good programmer with great habits.
• I've known people who have not mastered their tools who are good programmers, but not a tool master who remained a mediocre programmer.
• If you're having trouble succeeding, fail.
• The community isn't nearly as afraid as it thinks it is.
• Code wants to be simple... I had to give up the idea that I had the perfect vision of the system to which the system…
• How good the design is doesn't matter near as much as whether the design is getting better or worse. If it is getting better, day…
• Learning research tells us that the time lag from experiment to feedback is critical ...
• I tell people to start implementing when they are pretty sure there aren't more important stories out there. An iteration's worth of data is worth…
• Responsible Development is the style of development I aspire to now. It can be summarized by answering the question, How would I develop if it…
• Responsible Development shares many practices with XP but the roots are different. Responsible Development's values are honesty, transparency, accountability and responsibility. These lead me to…
• I mean, source code in files; how quaint, how seventies!
• Testing is not the point. The point is about responsibility.
• I don't like the feeling, but I've got to say that a little fear makes me a more focused, more responsible programmer.
• Sometimes the problem has to mature before the solution can mature.
• A plan is an example of what could happen, not a prediction of what will happen.
• The system metaphor is a story that everyone--customers, programmers, and managers--can tell about how the system works.

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