I'm not a great programmer; I'm just a good programmer with great habits.Kent Beck
Learning to program didn't have as much to do with learning to type code into a computer as it had to do with learning to see new kinds of problems and new ways of solving them.Kent Beck
The more you learn to live without, the more flexible you can be.Kent Beck
Optimism is an occupational hazard of programming; feedback is the treatment.Kent Beck
The executives who succeed will be the ones who make decisions quickly.Kent Beck
The best programmers and designers I know admit their mistakes as soon as they see them.Kent Beck
Software development has been steered wrong by the word 'requirement', defined in the dictionary as something mandatory or obligatory. The word carries a connotation of absolutism and permanence, inhibitors for embracing change. Instead, we should use a word like 'hypothesis' or 'assumption' to emphasize the provisional and tentative nature of our plans.Kent Beck
Every moment spent with an existing program thinking, I wish the program did such-and-so, is an opportunity to add more user stories.Kent Beck
The cost of change curve is the primary technical influence on the software shape.Kent Beck
I always knew that one day I'd look back at the problems of my past and laugh. But I never thought that day would come so fast.Kent Beck