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Programming Quotes by Kent Beck
- Optimism is an occupational hazard of programming; feedback is the treatment.
- 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.
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