Make it work, make it right, make it fast.

- Kent Beck

Optimism is an occupational hazard of programming; feedback is the treatment.

- Kent Beck

If you're having trouble succeeding, fail.

- Kent Beck

A plan is an example of what could happen, not a prediction of what will happen.

- Kent Beck

The business changes. The technology changes. The team changes. The team members change. The problem isn't change, per se, because change is going to…

- Kent Beck

Sometimes the problem has to mature before the solution can mature.

- Kent Beck

Of the four project development variables - scope, cost, time and quality - quality isn't really a free variable. The only possible values are "excel…

- Kent Beck

Testing is not the point. The point is about responsibility.

- Kent Beck

I'm not a great programmer; I'm just a good programmer with great habits.

- Kent Beck