Kent Beck Quotes

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

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• I think lots of actors are very nervous and shy. I know lots of them who are, and some who aren't of course.

  

  Maggie Smith
  • Think
  • Know
  • Nervous

• When we watch stories, we learn empathy, we learn compassion, and hopefully we achieve some sort of understanding.

  

  Gavin Hood
  • Understanding
  • Learn
  • Compassion

• Women don't give up things. They don't give up responsibilities. They add new things. They exhaust themselves and still don't give anything up. And. And. And. And. And they do all these other things at the same time, which can be exhausting.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Up
  • Time
  • Women

• BJP is the mothership of violence.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Violence

• We have a vision of South Africa in which black and white shall live and work together as equals in conditions of peace and prosperity.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • Work
  • Live
  • Together

• The only way I hear gossip is if it's big enough and loud enough for my friends to bring it up to me. Or if it's, like, a big untrue ordeal from my publicist – and she hates making that phone call!

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Friends
  • Way
  • Gossip

• Whether we or our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • Nature
  • Party
  • Justice

• It makes me happy to think that this world of art-as-investment is a minuscule fraction of the art world overall. Most people who create, trade and own art do it for a much simpler reason. They just like it.

  

  Adam Davidson
  • People
  • World
  • Art

• Loud peace propaganda makes war seem imminent.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • War
  • Peace
  • Propaganda

• Search for beauty without features, something deeper than any signs.

  

  Francesca da Rimini
  • Beauty
  • Search
  • Signs

• When I was ten years old, I had great pride in myself, which sometimes even took the form of boasting and self-praise; although I myself did not want to, I used to assume the air of someone undertaking some great work and mighty act of heroism.

  

  Said Nursi
  • Work
  • Great
  • Myself

• When I was younger, I used to visualise myself scoring wonder goals, stuff like that.

  

  Wayne Rooney
  • Myself
  • Wonder
  • Goals

• I like to play as a No. 10. I think I have more freedom offensively. For Belgium, we have full backs who run hard and create a lot of space, which is good, and I like to play there.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Good
  • Freedom
  • Space

• Well, the infrastructure part of the stimulus has worked. There's absolutely no question about it. We can demonstrate in Pennsylvania and other states around the union how it's produced good, paying jobs both on the construction sites and back in American factories. It has worked.

  

  Ed Rendell
  • Good
  • American
  • Question

• Well, I asked him who would start the war first.

  

  Samantha Smith
  • War
  • Start
  • Him

• I'm a little bit anally retentive, a little bit OCD, but a whole lot clean.

  

  Jack McBrayer
  • Little
  • Clean
  • Little Bit

• The moral and intellectual character of the Africans is widely different in different nations.

  

  Samuel George Morton
  • Different
  • Character
  • Moral

• Many people think voice over artists just read, there's much more to it. Without acting beats, scene study and improving skills, you won't make it.

  

  Tara Strong
  • People
  • Study
  • Acting

• Our grandfathers lived in a world of largely self-sufficient, inward-looking national economies - but our great-great grandfathers lived, as we do, in a world of large-scale international trade and investment, a world destroyed by nationalism.

  

  Paul Krugman
  • World
  • Self-Sufficient
  • Grandfathers

• If somebody comes up and they're African American as Mike is, and they're extremely talented as Mike is, they say, "Oh, yeah, he's the next ..." I think that it points to disparity.

  

  Michael B. Jordan
  • Ifs
  • Next
  • Yeah

• I want viewers to relate to me on a different level, not just a sexual level.

  

  Morris Chestnut
  • Level
  • Relate
  • Viewers

• Our first record didn't come out on vinyl, so I think that might have had something to do with actually being in a position to make sure that it came out in vinyl this time. It sounds way better.

  

  Jeff Ament
  • Time

• Once you've been at the top, you're always gonna know what it's like to be at the top. If you've never been at the top, you're not worrying about what it feels like being there.

  

  Asher D
  • Feels
  • Been
  • Top

• Optimism is an occupational hazard of programming: feedback is the treatment.

  

  Kent Beck