Kent Beck: Programming

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

Source: Extreme Programming Explained (2000), p. 31

“The new concept of Extreme Programming (XP) is gaining more and more acceptance, partially because it is controversial, but primarily because it is particularly well-suited to help the small software development team succeed… XP is controversial, many software development sacred cows don't make the cut in XP; it forces practitioners to take a fresh look at how software is developed.”

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Extreme Programming Explained (2000)

“When you find you have to add a feature to a program, and the program's code is not structured in a convenient way to add the feature, first refactor the program to make it easy to add the feature, then add the feature.”

Source: Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code, 1999, p. 7