74 Quotes by 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.

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

If you're having trouble succeeding, fail.

The community isn't nearly as afraid as it thinks it is.

Learning research tells us that the time lag from experiment to feedback is critical ...

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

Sometimes the problem has to mature before the solution can mature.

Optimism is an occupational hazard of programming; feedback is the treatment.

Responsible Development shares many practices with XP but the roots are different. Responsible Development's values are honesty, transparency, accountability and responsibility. These lead me to pairing, test-first, incremental design, continuous integration and so on because they support the values.