74 Quotes by Kent Beck

I found out that most programmers don't like to test their software as intensely as I do.

I think it's a combination of technical and social factors that leads to all the defects in deployed software.

If I'd had a charisma-ectomy in the beginning, XP would have gone nowhere.

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

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.

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

There's a huge latent market for software development that's just flat-out honest.

Agitator and the Agitar Management Dashboard lower the barriers to accountability in software development and increase the value of developer testing.

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.