Quotes by Kent Beck

Kent Beck

A plan is an example of what could happen, not a prediction of what will happen.

Example

Plans

Predictions

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 had to conform. Instead, I had to accept that I was only the vehicle for the system expressing its own desire for simplicity. My vision could shape initial direction, and my attention to the desires of the code could affect how quickly and how well the system found its desired shape, but the system is riding me much more than I am riding the system.

Giving Up

Ideas

Simple

I mean, source code in files; how quaint, how seventies!

Mean

Quaint

Source

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 months of speculation.

Data

Important

People

I’ve known people who have not mastered their tools who are good programmers, but not a tool master who remained a mediocre programmer.

Masters

People

Tools

If testing costs more than not testing, then don’t test.

Cost

Testing

Tests

If you’re having trouble succeeding, fail.

Failing

Succeed

Trouble

Listening, Testing, Coding, Designing. That’s all there is to software. Anyone who tells you different is selling something.

Design

Different

Listening

Make it work, make it right, make it fast.

Of the four project development variables – scope, cost, time and quality – quality isn’t really a free variable. The only possible values are “excellent” and “insanely excellent”, depending on whether lives are at stake.

Cost

Development

Quality

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Community

Cost

Data

Design

Development

Different

Example

Failing

Giving Up

Hazards

Ideas

Important

Listening

Masters

Mature

Mean

Metaphor

Optimism

People

Plans

Predictions

Problem

Programmers

Programming

Quaint

Quality

Responsibility

Simple

Slacker

Sometimes

Source

Stories

Succeed

Technology

Testing

Tests

Thinking

Tools

Trouble

The Future Blueprint

Tool

The Home Therapist: Anti Anxiety

Tool

The Autobiography

Tool

The Behaviour Diary

Tool

The Dating Diary

Tool

The Relationship Therapist

Tool

Quotes by Kent Beck

Kent Beck

A plan is an example of what could happen, not a prediction of what will happen.

I mean, source code in files; how quaint, how seventies!

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 months of speculation.

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 testing costs more than not testing, then don’t test.

If you’re having trouble succeeding, fail.

Listening, Testing, Coding, Designing. That’s all there is to software. Anyone who tells you different is selling something.

Make it work, make it right, make it fast.

Of the four project development variables – scope, cost, time and quality – quality isn’t really a free variable. The only possible values are “excellent” and “insanely excellent”, depending on whether lives are at stake.

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