74 Quotes by Kent Beck

Used Pluggable Adaptor, which we promise not to use again for four months, minimum, because it makes code hard to statically analyze.

Brilliance in a scientist does not consist in being right more often but in being wrong about more interesting topics.

I'm not a great programmer; I'm just a good programmer with great habits.

If you're happy slamming some code together that more or less works and you're happy never looking at the result again, TDD is not for you. TDD rests on a charmingly naïve geekoid assumption that if you write better code, you'll be more successful. TDD helps you to pay attention to the right issues at the right time so you can make your designs cleaner, you can refine your designs as you learn.

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.

First you learn the value of abstraction, then you learn the cost of abstraction, then you're ready to engineer.

My great-grandfather played organ for silent movies. Talkies in, Gramps out.

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

Developer testing is an important step towards accountability. It gives developers a way to demonstrate the quality of the software they produce.