Kent Beck Quotes

I found out that most programmers don't like to test their software as intensely as I do.

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• Cooking is like music: you can tell when someone puts love into it. I come from a place where there was so much attention to detail. The population is smaller in the South, so more attention is given to serving smaller numbers of people.

  

  Taylor Hicks
  • Music
  • Attention
  • Like

• We stole a box of honey jars one time and went out in the woods and took care of the whole box. I don't think I touched honey again for 20 years. I never wanted to see honey again.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Time
  • Think
  • Care

• Acting in film, you know, I hear all the time, people say 'You did so much better than I thought you would.' So there's an added element of surprise in film, different than in music.

  

  T.I.
  • People
  • Time
  • Music

• Van Morrison is probably, at this point in time, my biggest influence as a vocalist. When we were making our last album I had a vinyl copy of 'Veedon Fleece' in the vocal booth in front of me, in the dorky sense. I think there were candles around, which is really tacky, but hey, I needed to channel Van the Man!

  

  Nate Ruess Fun.
  • Time
  • Man
  • Influence

• What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Man
  • Value
  • Knows

• I wanted to act; that was my one goal. I wanted to devote all my time to acting and not waitressing or anything else.

  

  Edie Falco
  • Time
  • Goal
  • Acting

• That's been the most exciting part of the show - incorporating the magic and the acrobats and the singing and dancing to make our 'Pippin.'

  

  Patina Miller
  • Singing
  • Magic
  • Dancing

• To many, Homer may appear lazy and a loser, but he's just much misguided. He's boorish, sure, but well meaning and, I guess, the one thing we have in common is the pursuit of lousy diets.

  

  Dan Castellaneta
  • May
  • Meaning
  • Lazy

• What is the Geneva Convention on wars! I have never read it.

  

  Yoweri Museveni
  • Never
  • Read
  • Convention

• I think that both parties should declare the debt limit as a political weapon of mass destruction which can't be used. I mean, it is silly to have a country that has 237 years building up its reputation and then have people threaten to tear it down because they're not getting some other matter.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • People
  • Up
  • Country

• Los Angeles is a good city in which to be a reporter. Always entertaining, always an incubator.

  

  Dana Goodyear
  • Good
  • City
  • Los Angeles

• I'm not a wushu champion. I was an athlete when I was a kid. I was a swimmer and a runner, but all this action stuff is such a challenge. It really, really is.

  

  Maggie Q
  • Action
  • Challenge
  • Athlete

• The felonious five in their Supreme Court decision never said Gore did anything improperly in Florida.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • Decision
  • Never
  • Said

• We should all consider each other as human beings, and we should respect each other.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Respect
  • Human
  • Human Beings

• Country music is some of the best-written music in the world, so yeah, one day, I would keep my mind open to doing a country record.

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • World
  • Music
  • Country

• I've been reading a lot about North Korea ever since I got the part in 'The Interview' because it's just such a fascinating place. There are so many amazing stories of bravery coming out of there.

  

  Randall Park
  • Reading
  • Amazing
  • Bravery

• There is only one thing which can master the perplexed stuff of epic material into unity; and that is, an ability to see in particular human experience some significant symbolism of man's general destiny.

  

  Lascelles Abercrombie
  • Experience
  • Man
  • Destiny

• She supposed she ought to feel impressed that Genar-Hofoen was sticking to his principles in the face of imminent death-and she did feel a little admiration-but mostly she just thought he was being stupid.

  

  Iain Banks
  • She
  • Death
  • Stupid

• I've come to terms with the fact that if you're on TV, lots of people like you and lots of people hate you, and once you're OK with that, you apply it to everything.

  

  Alexa Chung
  • People
  • Hate

• At Casablanca we did 'Midnight Express,' 'Flashdance,' and 'The Deep.' My willingness for risk has always been my strength.

  

  Peter Guber
  • Risk
  • Deep

• I just think that trusting God means we're going to have unanswered questions, and God is so much bigger than us, we're never going to understand them all.

  

  Joel Osteen
  • God

• Think about the number of times someone will say to herself, "I want to get out of this circumstance, but I'm too afraid. I'll lie about how happy I am in this marriage, and I'll put up a front." But she's betraying everything that's in her heart. She's making choices that are harming her, and that's why she's hurting. Her intuition is trying to tell her that.

  

  Caroline Myss
  • Heart
  • Hurt
  • Lying

• The method of this great philosopher Kant can serve as a pointer to the satisfying solution to our problem. Of course we don’t have to slavishly adhere to Kant's form, but we must match his method to the nature of our own subject socialism, displaying the same critical spirit. Our critique must be direct against both a scepticism that undermines all theoretical thought, and a dogmatism that relies on ready-made formulas.

  

  Eduard Bernstein
  • Problem
  • Spirit
  • Philosopher

• I found out that most programmers don't like to test their software as intensely as I do.

  

  Kent Beck