Kent Beck Quotes

Refactoring (noun) : a change made to the internal structure of software to make it easier to understand and cheaper to modify without changing the observable behavior of the software. To refactor (verb) : to restructure software by applying a series of refactorings without changing the observable behavior of the software.

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• The only way I can be there and really get into the character is if I'm her.

  

  Lacey Chabert
  • Character
  • Way
  • Her

• Women can't be afraid to look like action heroes. It's not always pretty, but when it's on the screen, it translates well to the audience.

  

  Victoria Pratt
  • Women
  • Pretty
  • Action

• When I first started out, I found it really hard to be rejected all the time. You invest in a casting, you prepare and get excited about it, then when I fail and don't get it, it makes me question whether I should be a model.

  

  Barbara Palvin
  • Time
  • Me
  • Question

• You don't have to paint your walls lime green just to try to have your home feel decorated. If you're a classic dresser or preppy dresser or a modern dresser, you wear a lot of black - whatever it is - your home should reflect that as well.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Home
  • Black
  • Green

• I heard the new film, 'Tangerine,' was filmed entirely on iPhones. No cameras were involved!

  

  D. A. Pennebaker
  • Film
  • New
  • Involved

• Although my mother didn't necessarily approve of teenage girls wearing heels, she made an exception for me when I was 14 because she didn't want me to be self-conscious about my height - or to slouch.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • She
  • Mother
  • Want

• At the time I was writing the second album, I was sitting home in my underwear all day every day; I didn't have all that much to write about except for my own life and my family.

  

  Mac DeMarco
  • Life
  • Time
  • Writing

• It's a long, slow sunset for ink-on-paper magazines, but sunsets can produce vast sums of money.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Long
  • Money
  • Sunset

• I thought art was dead rabbits hanging by their feet on a wall. I went to Italy and saw all the religious paintings, and they didn't move me all that much. Then someone invited me to see this van Gogh exhibit at the Rosenberg Gallery in San Francisco.

  

  Irving Stone
  • Art
  • Religious
  • Thought

• I think Raymond is very honest about human relationships.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • Think
  • Very
  • Relationships

• I grew up loving films and making stupid movies with a good friend of mine, who now actually has a career in a really prominent special effects house, so he's still doing it. We just started messing around with a camera.

  

  D. J. Cotrona
  • Up
  • Good
  • Career

• Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

  

  Barbara De Angelis
  • Love
  • Ability
  • For Her

• Players don't usually like anybody who makes more money than they do.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Money
  • More
  • Players

• My signature fragrance would be herbal - basil mixed with rosemary and coriander. Some big stars have got perfume lines that smell really bad. They've got it all wrong.

  

  Valerie June
  • Bad
  • Stars
  • Smell

• Nobody has it all, but for me to even come close is amazing.

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
  • Me
  • Amazing
  • Nobody

• Artists should agitate and democratize their own work, but they should also work to democratize the arts themselves.

  

  Dan Pink
  • Work
  • Artists
  • Arts

• Every citizen of this country should be guaranteed that their vote matters, that their vote is counted, and that in the voting booth, their vote has a much weight as that of any CEO, any member of Congress, or any President.

  

  Barbara Boxer
  • Country
  • Vote
  • Voting

• Although each human rights victory energizes us to continue our work, there remains a deep sorrow for those prisoners still wrongfully languishing in jail.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • Work
  • Deep
  • Victory

• Better than glory, or honors, or fame, (Though I am striving for those to-day) To know that some heart will cherish my name, And think of me kindly, with blessings, alway.

  

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox
  • Thinking
  • Heart
  • Honor

• Ethnicity should enrich us; it should make us a unique people in our diversity and not be used to divide us.

  

  Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
  • People
  • Life
  • Unique

• Oh, never and forever aren't for mortals, love. But we won't be parted till I know it's right that we part.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Forever
  • Knows
  • Saying Goodbye

• To design is to plan, to order, to relate, and to control. In short, it opposes all means of disorder and accident.

  

  Emil Ruder
  • Control
  • Design
  • Accident

• It wasn't idealism that made me, from the beginning, want a more secure and rational society. It was an intellectual judgment, to which I still hold. When I was young its name was socialism. We can be deflected by names. But the need was absolute, and is still absolute.

  

  Raymond Williams
  • Judgment
  • Communism
  • Rational

• Refactoring (noun) : a change made to the internal structure of software to make it easier to understand and cheaper to modify without changing the observable behavior of the software. To refactor (verb) : to restructure software by applying a series of refactorings without changing the observable behavior of the software.

  

  Kent Beck