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

• BJP is the mothership of violence.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Violence

• 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

• 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

• 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

• When a garment is in sync with your body and its proportions, it looks and feels amazing, and in France that is something that all women know from a young age.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Women
  • Age
  • Amazing

• I always think of Gilbert Norrell as being Salieri to Jonathan Strange being Mozart.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Think
  • Always
  • Strange

• No verse is free for the man who wants to do a good job....Poetry..remains one person talking to another....no poet can write a poem of amplitude unless he is the master of the prosaic.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Good
  • Job
  • Free

• 'We're on the verge of civil war in Northern Ireland. Why? Because if you take away the forums of democracy you don't have anything left.'

  

  Ian Paisley
  • Why
  • War
  • Democracy

• All stories have a beginning, a middle and an ending, and if they're any good, the ending is a beginning.

  

  James Clavell
  • Good
  • Beginning

• Tons of people inspire my music, and now when I do an interview, I'm scared to say who they are.

  

  Mike Posner
  • People
  • Music

• In terms of competitiveness of new global environment, Kenya will have absolutely no choice but to tackle the most important constraint to its development: it has been corruption.

  

  Obiageli Ezekwesili
  • Important
  • Environment
  • Corruption

• When I won the Oscar, I fell into that mind-set that this is a precious role. People everywhere were shouting, 'Show me the money!' I just didn't want anything that could parody the fact that I was like a tagline in a movie. So when Steven Spielberg offered me 'Amistad,' I said no; when 'Hotel Rwanda' came along, I said no.

  

  Cuba Gooding, Jr.
  • People
  • Mind
  • Money

• I've gradually grown more comfortable with who I am and what I am.

  

  James Michael Aloysius Bradford

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

  

  Kent Beck