Top 25 Quotes by Kent Beck

About Kent Beck

These are some quotes by American author Kent Beck Businessman, who was born in 1961.

Extreme programming is an emotional experience.

Extreme programming is an emotional experience.

Kent Beck

When Pandora doesn't pay, and bars don't pay, and weddings don't pay, and nobody buys CDs or shirts or concert tickets or lessons, then the musician can't make a living making music.

When Pandora doesn't pay, and bars don't pay, and weddings don't pay, and nobody buys CDs or shirts or concert tickets or lessons, then the musician can't make a living making music.

Kent Beck

There are musicians who want to make a living making music. There are listeners who want to listen to music. Complicating this relationship is a whole bunch of history: some of the music I want to listen to was made a while ago in a different economy. Some of the models of making a living making music are no longer valid but persist.

Kent Beck

Organizations want small changes in functionality on a more regular basis. An organization like Flickr deploys a new version of its software every half hour. This is a cycle that feeds on itself.

Organizations want small changes in functionality on a more regular basis. An organization like Flickr deploys a new version of its software every half hour. This is a cycle that feeds on itself.

Kent Beck

The problem is, in software design, often the consequences of your decisions don't become apparent for years.

The problem is, in software design, often the consequences of your decisions don't become apparent for years.

Kent Beck

I used Agitator on some code I had unit-tested, and it made me a better tester. As an Agitar Fellow, I look forward to the leverage of working with an outstanding organization as together we continue to improve the value of developer testing.

Kent Beck

A rational model of software is to design it quickly - the economic pressure to improvise presents an interesting challenge.

A rational model of software is to design it quickly - the economic pressure to improvise presents an interesting challenge.

Kent Beck

There is a strong movement towards increased accountability for software developers and software development organizations.

There is a strong movement towards increased accountability for software developers and software development organizations.

Kent Beck

The marketing of XP is very deliberate and conscious. Part of it is in co-opting the power of the media; I make sure I'm newsworthy from time to time. Part is in co-opting some of my publisher's ad budget.

Kent Beck

One of the advantages of having to live with JUnit for 8 years is now we can look back and see which decisions we made worked nicely and which we would have done differently.

One of the advantages of having to live with JUnit for 8 years is now we can look back and see which decisions we made worked nicely and which we would have done differently.

Kent Beck

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