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

• I started culinary school at a very young age, and really I wanted to be out working, cooking, more than I wanted to be in a classroom. You could say I wasn't a very good student - I wanted to be a student of life and experience.

  

  Jose Andres
  • Life
  • Good
  • School

• Believe it or not, in 1969 the French writer Georges Perec wrote a palindromic story that was 500 words long! The whole story reads the same backwards as forwards.

  

  Ursula Dubosarsky
  • Believe
  • Long
  • Words

• I think it's fun to play for people who don't know what you do.

  

  Kenny Rogers
  • People
  • Fun

• There are two words that, when spoken, have the most unfathomable power to completely change your life. Two words which, when they pass your lips, will be the cause of bringing absolute joy and happiness to you. Two words that will create miracles in your life. Two words that will wipe out negativity. Two words that will bring you abundance in all things. Two words which, when uttered and sincerely felt, will summon all the forces and vibrations in the Universe to move all things for you. The only thing standing between you, happiness, and the life of your dreams is two words THANK YOU!

  

  Rhonda Byrne
  • Power
  • Change
  • Moving

• She Mary I married Philip King of Spain, who in her sister's reign, was famous for building Armadas.

  

  Jane Austen
  • She
  • Famous
  • King

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

  

  Kent Beck