Kent Beck Quotes

Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time.

Change is a continuous process. You cannot assess it with the static yardstick of a limited time frame. When a seed is sown into the ground, you cannot immediately see the plant. You have to be patient. With time, it grows into a large tree. And then the flowers bloom, and only then can the fruits be plucked.

Not everything can be solved quickly.

Deeds and seeds, take their own time to fructify.

The processes of growth are gradual, bearing fruit in a decade, not a day.

I suppose that every time there is difficulty. I remember about Space Mountain: It took us ten years before we found the technology that would allow such a ride. And during these ten years, I had a model that I kept, waiting for the technology we needed.

How do you shoot a 150-day movie? You shoot it one day at a time.

Time ripens all things; no man is born wise.

Most good things happen with time; especially music, which needs time to breathe and to find its own way.

Home wasn't built in a day.

When eating an elephant take one bite at a time.

It takes a long time to bring about change.

Shall I refuse my dinner because I do not fully understand the process of digestion?

Technology always takes longer [to develop] than you think.

We can't solve all of our problems in a short time.

I find that it's best to take one step at a time and cross each bridge as they come to you.

Nothing happens overnight in this game.

You can't hurry a loaf of bread. You have to wait for it to prove and rise.

Sometimes, ideas are like good wine in that they just need time.

It takes time and experience to make a person.

Change always takes time.

Change won't happen overnight.

You're like a cake when you're young. You can't rush it or it will fall, or just turn out wrong. Rising takes patience, and heat.

Stories, like whiskey, must be allowed to mature in the cask.

Every problem has a solution. Sometimes it just takes a long time to find the solution - even if it's right in front of your nose.