Kent Beck

1961– · American software engineer

Topics: programming, software engineering, engineering leadership, learning

• I always knew that one day Smalltalk would replace Java. I just didn't know it would be called Ruby.

  — Kent Beck

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

  — Kent Beck

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

  — 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 happen; the problem, rather, is the inability to cope with change when it comes.

  — Kent Beck