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Kent Beck
Kent Beck
American Businessman
Born: 1961
Accountability Design Living Music Value You
Related authors: Bill Gates Henry Ford Jim Rohn Les Brown Peter Drucker Stephen Covey Steve Jobs Warren Buffett
Developer testing is an important step towards accountability. It gives developers a way to demonstrate the quality of the software they produce. Kent Beck
Quality Important Accountability Software Way Gives Step Developer Developers Towards Important Step Demonstrate Testing Produce
Design should be easy in the sense that every step should be obviously and clearly identifiable. Simplify elements to make change simple so you can manage the technical risk. Kent Beck
You Change Simple Sense Design Every Every Step Easy Risk Simplify Step Clearly Obviously Make Manage Should Elements Technical
Extreme programming is an emotional experience. Kent Beck
Experience Programming Extreme Emotional
There's a huge latent market for software development that's just flat-out honest. Kent Beck
Software Market Latent Development Huge Just Honest
Whether you draw diagrams that generate code or you type at a browser, you are coding. Kent Beck
You Type Draw Browser Generate Diagram Whether Code Coding
The world is changing, and I believe that, if I want to stay employed as a programmer, I'm going to have to change with it. Kent Beck
Change World Believe Changing Stay Employed Going Want Programmer
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
Made Live Back Would See Having Advantages Look Years Done Which Decisions Worked Nicely Now Differently
I think it's a combination of technical and social factors that leads to all the defects in deployed software. Kent Beck
Think Software Factors Combination Leads Deployed Social Technical Defects
I lived near Santa Cruz for ten years, and the whole time, it bothered me what an exclusionary definition of 'inclusion' was in force. Social censure was applied to those who expressed unpopular or uncomfortable ideas. Kent Beck
Time Me Those Definition Unpopular Ten Ten Years Uncomfortable Bothered Ideas Cruz Force Years Censure Social Santa Who Whole Expressed Inclusion Lived Near Applied
My great-grandfather played organ for silent movies. Talkies in, Gramps out. Kent Beck
Organ Out Silent Silent Movies Great-Grandfather Movies Played
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
Music Pay Living Pandora Musician Weddings Nobody Tickets Make Concert Making Shirts Then Lessons Bars Buys
Sheet music, recording, radio, television, cassettes, CD burners, and file sharing have all invalidated, to some extent, the old model of making a living making music. Kent Beck
Music Old Recording Living Television Some Sharing Sheet Making Making A Living Model Radio File Extent
A rational model of software is to design it quickly - the economic pressure to improvise presents an interesting challenge. Kent Beck
Challenge Pressure Improvise Design Software Economic Rational Quickly Model Interesting Presents
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
Organization Half Every Changes Software More Small Feeds New Hour Like Version Itself Want Regular Regular Basis Cycle Organizations Functionality Basis
People are looking for software development that actually does something useful... People are looking for partners who deliver when promised, and at a reasonable and transparent price. I believe that the days of being able to value price software are numbered. Kent Beck
People Value Looking Believe Software Promised Able Something Price Deliver Development Days Partners Does Being Transparent Useful Reasonable Who Actually Numbered
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
Time Power Marketing Some Deliberate Part Budget Make Sure Very From Time To Time Media Publisher Conscious Ad
If I'd had a charisma-ectomy in the beginning, XP would have gone nowhere. Kent Beck
Beginning Gone Would Had In The Beginning Nowhere
I found out that most programmers don't like to test their software as intensely as I do. Kent Beck
Software Out Like Most Test Intensely Found Programmers
First you learn the value of abstraction, then you learn the cost of abstraction, then you're ready to engineer. Kent Beck
You Engineer Value First Cost Abstraction Learn Ready Then

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