Kent Beck Quotes

Developer testing is an important step towards accountability. It gives developers a way to demonstrate the quality of the software they produce.

Kent Beck

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• I love so many styles of music.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Music
  • Love
  • I Love

• After 2014, we will support a unified Afghanistan as it takes responsibility for its own future.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Future
  • Support
  • Responsibility

• It's very easy to have slogans and rhetoric that people will follow, but eventually the slogans fall away.

  

  Saad Hariri
  • People
  • Fall
  • Easy

• I have a little basement studio set up here at my house, and I do probably 80 percent of the recording here on my own. With multi-tracking technology, I can play various parts on top of one another.

  

  Washed Out
  • Up
  • House
  • Technology

• To win the cause we all believe in, the spread of true democracy all over the world, we need to win by example, not just with speeches but by example; not just with military might but by gaining the respect of the world.

  

  Barbara Boxer
  • World
  • Believe
  • True

• I do love traveling, so I've been able to travel a lot.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Love
  • Travel
  • Been

• Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Society
  • Taken
  • New

• Novelists want to be published and need a publisher to decide to print 20,000 copies. So you need to entertain on some level. I want to reach out and connect.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • Want
  • You
  • Reach

• When he said we were trying to make a fool of him, I could only murmur that the Creator had beat us to it.

  

  Ilka Chase
  • Trying
  • Fool
  • Said

• Human writing reflects that of the universe; it is its translation, but also its metaphor: it says something totally different, and it says the same thing.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Different
  • Writing
  • Universe

• I ran the Iditarod twice. I finished once. I came in 42nd or 43rd place out of 70 plus teams the first time, and I scratched 80 miles from Nome the second time. You can read about my experience in the race in my books 'Woodsong' and 'Winterdance.'

  

  Gary Paulsen
  • Time
  • Experience
  • Race

• What's hardest for me to swallow is when there is a love story, say, with a really high-profile male star and there's no reason I can't play the part. They say, 'Oh, we love Halle, we just don't want to go black with this part.'

  

  Halle Berry
  • Reason
  • Star
  • Story

• We think that democracy can change a lot of things, but we're being fooled, because democracy is not the election. We've been taught that democracy is having elections. And it isn't. Elections are the most horrendous aspect of democracy. It's the most mundane, trivial, disappointing, dirty aspect.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Change
  • Democracy
  • Dirty

• I just try to be myself, whatever that is. I don't think about how I'll be remembered. I just want to be consistent over a long period of time. That's what the great players do.

  

  Dan Marino
  • Time
  • Great
  • Long

• Christianity has kept itself going for centuries on hope alone, and has perpetrated all manner of naughtiness in the meantime.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Hope
  • Alone
  • Christianity

• I think the Supreme Court has not yet caught up to an era in which one keeps one's papers in a cloud, not a castle.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Up
  • Think
  • Cloud

• Everything I do is blown out of proportion. It really hurts my feelings.

  

  Paris Hilton
  • Feelings
  • Everything
  • Hurts

• I like the MAC Face and Body foundation. Sometimes it can't cover all my flaws, but I like it because it looks really natural and it evens out my skin tone.

  

  Zhu Zhu
  • Face
  • Foundation
  • Flaws

• If there are people who feel that God wants them to change the structures of society, that is something between them and their God. We must serve him in whatever way we are called. I am called to help the individual; to love each poor person. Not to deal with institutions. I am in no position to judge.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • People
  • Love
  • Helping

• Those albums are so important to me because, for the first time, I was making my own music, paying for it, finding strengths in it, and going through the process of finding the right music for the record.

  

  Randy Bachman The Guess Who
  • Time
  • Music
  • Important

• I think education is something that is very important no matter what you are doing. It makes you feel secure, independent, and helps you build confidence in yourself. It grooms your whole personality. So if it starts from the basic level; if the basic education that a girl and a boy receive is the same, I think a lot will change.

  

  Kriti Sanon
  • Important
  • Girl
  • Education

• We who came here saw what was happening. This was far more than a war in a faraway place. This was a moral imperative, a terrible vision of the future.

  

  Paddy Ashdown
  • War
  • Future
  • Vision

• Developer testing is an important step towards accountability. It gives developers a way to demonstrate the quality of the software they produce.

  

  Kent Beck
  • Important
  • Quality
  • Accountability