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Kent Beck, born in 1961, is a renowned software engineer and a pioneer of the Agile Software Development movement. He is best known for his contributions to Extreme Programming (XP), a software development methodology that emphasizes rapid feedback and continuous improvement. Beck has extensive experience in the field of software engineering and has published numerous papers on various aspects of the discipline.

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

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Book:Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change

Source: Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change

“I tell people to start implementing when they are pretty sure there aren't more important stories out there. An iteration's worth of data is worth months of speculation.”

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“Responsible Development is the style of development I aspire to now. It can be summarized by answering the question, How would I develop if it were my money? I'm amazed how many theoretical arguments evaporate when faced with this question.”

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“Responsible Development shares many practices with XP but the roots are different. Responsible Development's values are honesty, transparency, accountability and responsibility. These lead me to pairing, test-first, incremental design, continuous integration and so on because they support the values.”

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“I mean, source code in files; how quaint, how seventies!”

Mean Source Code Programming Seventies Files Quaint

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

Responsibility Programming Testing Slacker

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Born: 1961
Known for: Software Engineer
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