Example Quote by Kent Beck Download Open image “A plan is an example of what could happen, not a prediction of what will happen.” — Kent Beck ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Example Happens Inspirational Plans Predictions Strategy
A plan is only a scenario, and almost by definition, it is optimistic... As a result, scenario planning can lead to a serious underestimate… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
Can you define "plan" as "a loose sequence of manifestly inadequate observations and conjectures, held together by panic, indecision, and ignorance"? If so, it… — Jonathan Stroud Copy Share Image
“Plans are best-case scenarios. Let’s avoid anchoring on plans when we forecast actual outcomes. Thinking about ways the plan could go wrong is one… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
I don't make plans for my future. I have learned that you cannot predict what will happen. — Samir Nasri Copy Share Image
It is not predictions but plans that make the future. If you want predictions, it is because you do not have the ability to… — Jaggi Vasudev Copy Share Image
One possible reason why things aren't going according to plan is that there never was a plan. — Ashleigh Brilliant Copy Share Image
A plan is a real thing, and things projected are experienced. A plan once made and visualized becomes reality along with other realities—never to… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
It's bad policy to speculate on what you'll do if a plan fails when you're trying to make a plan work. — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
“This should not come as a surprise: overly optimistic forecasts of the outcome of projects are found everywhere. Amos and I coined the term planning fallacy to describe plans and forecasts that are unrealistically close to best-case scenarios could be improved by consulting the statistics of similar cases Examples of the planning fallacy abound in the experiences of individuals, governments,… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share
“The problem with a plan is that you fill up the blank page of a new day with a ' to-do ' list before you get there. And if you're not careful there's no room for anything else. A plan, especially a very focused one, narrows down the possibilies of the future to just a couple of things: that things… — John C. Parkin Copy Share
The world moves into the future as a result of decisions, not as a result of plans. Plans are significant only insofar as they… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
“If I have the same logic in two places, I work with the design to understand how I can have only one copy. Designs… — Kent Beck Copy Share Image
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… — Kent Beck Copy Share Image
“However, most defects end up costing more than it would have cost to prevent them. Defects are expensive when they occur, both the direct… — Kent Beck Copy Share Image
“Trust energizes participants. We feel good when things work smoothly. We need to be safe to experiment and make mistakes. We need testing to… — Kent Beck Copy Share Image
“If there are forms of testing, like stress and load testing, that find defects after development is "complete," bring them into the development cycle.… — Kent Beck Copy Share Image
“If you have a month to plan a project in detail, spend it on four one-week iterations developing while you improve your estimates. If… — Kent Beck Copy Share Image
Optimism is an occupational hazard of programming; feedback is the treatment. — Kent Beck Copy Share Image
“Some of the teams who read and applied the first edition of this book didn't get the part of the message about the last… — Kent Beck Copy Share Image
“Beta testing is a symptom of weak testing practices and poor communication with customers.” — Kent Beck Copy Share Image
“Responsibility cannot be assigned; it can only be accepted. If someone tries to give you responsibility, only you can decide if you are responsible… — Kent Beck Copy Share Image
Whether you draw diagrams that generate code or you type at a browser, you are coding. — Kent Beck Copy Share Image
I love playing for my country, getting the support. Especially for the kids and everybody, showing my example of what I can achieve so… — Maria Sharapova Copy Share Image
It's like the query letter problem that I just mentioned, magnified a hundredfold. You might be good at telling a story, but that doesn't mean you know anything about marketing. Or layout. Or editing. Or publicity. Or selling your books for foreign markets.Everyone can point to a few examples of people that have done very well for themselves self-publishing. But… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share
I think leading by example is important, as I know the next generation is watching us. — Michael Skolnik Copy Share Image
Can you imagine any better example of divine creative accomplishment that the consummate flying machine that is a bird? The skeleton, very flexible and… — Guy Murchie Copy Share Image
Men trust rather to their eyes than to their ears; the effect of precepts is therefore slow and tedious, whilst that of examples is… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Popular culture as a whole is popular, but in today's fragmented market it's a jostle of competing unpopular popular cultures. As the critic Stanley Crouch likes to say, if you make a movie and 10 million people go see it, you'll gross $100 million - and 96 per cent of the population won't have to be involved. That alone should… — Mark Steyn Copy Share
You can have examples of reasons to hate people, but if you analyze those reasons it's like, Oh, I'm hating that person based on… — Charlyne Yi Copy Share Image
The protestant world is in great need of examples (like these) that will beckon us to the fullness of God. — Mike Bickle Copy Share Image
If it comes to a question of law, the charges they brought against me - the Espionage Act - is called the quintessential political crime. A political crime, in legal terms, is defined as any crime against a state, as opposed to against an individual. Assassination, for example, is not a political crime because you've killed a person, an individual,… — Edward Snowden Copy Share
I'm not the most vocal guy, but I try to lead by example every single day with how I work. — Brandon Ingram Copy Share Image
But actually theory is very practical. Gravity is a theory, for example. It allows you to predict that if you step off a cliff… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
I had the best example set by my parents for what a couple can - and, in my opinion, should - be. — Brett Young Copy Share Image
