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Kent Beck (born 1961) is an American software engineer and the creator of extreme programming, a software development methodology that eschews rigid formal specification for a collaborative and iterative design process. Beck was one of the 17 original signatories of the Agile Manifesto, the founding document for agile software development. Extreme and Agile methods are closely associated with Test-Driven Development (TDD), of which Beck is perhaps the leading proponent.

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Make it work, make it right, make it fast.

Fast, Make, Right, Work

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

Mature, Problem, Solution, Sometimes

A plan is an example of what could happen, not a prediction of what will happen.

Example, Happen, Plans, Prediction, Predictions

The business changes. The technology changes. The team changes. The team members change. The problem isn't change, per se, because change is going to happen; the problem, rather, is the inability to cope with change when it comes.

Cope, Inability, Team, Technology

The system metaphor is a story that everyone--customers, programmers, and managers--can tell about how the system works.

Metaphor, Programmers, Stories, System, Tell

I've known people who have not mastered their tools who are good programmers, but not a tool master who remained a mediocre programmer.

Master, Mastered, Masters, People, Programmers, Tools

Responsible Development is the style of development I aspire to now. It can be summarized by answering the question, How would I develop if it were my money? I'm amazed how many theoretical arguments evaporate when faced with this question.

Answering, Argument, Aspire, Development, Money, Style

How good the design is doesn't matter near as much as whether the design is getting better or worse. If it is getting better, day by day, I can live with it forever. If it is getting worse, I will die.

Day, Design, Forever, Live, Matter, Simplicity

Code wants to be simple. . . I had to give up the idea that I had the perfect vision of the system to which the system had to conform. Instead, I had to accept that I was only the vehicle for the system expressing its own desire for simplicity. My vision could shape initial direction, and my attention to the desires of the code could affect how quickly and how well the system found its desired shape, but the system is riding me much more than I am riding the system.

Give, Giving Up, Ideas, Quickly, Simple, Vehicle

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

Hazard, Hazards, Optimism, Programming, Technology

Testing is not the point. The point is about responsibility.

Point, Programming, Responsibility, Slacker, Testing

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

Afraid, Community, Nearly, Thinking, Thinks

If you're having trouble succeeding, fail.

Fail, Failing, Having, Succeed, Trouble

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

Coding, Design, Different, Listening, Software