Kent Beck Quotes

Don't fear change - embrace it.

Adaptability is a great asset to have because life is so unpredictable, and things can change overnight for any of us.

You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.

Knowing how to deal with change effectively is a primary requirement for living successfully in perhaps the most exciting time in all of human history

We are always in transition. If you can just relax with that, you'll have no problem.

You have to move forward. It's constantly changing. Everything changes and everything falls apart. You have to be nimble and on your toes and accessible to it all. Not everyone is on board with this.

In this speedy world of ours when facts are multiplying rapidly and giant rearrangements are happening all around us, it seems dangerous to be made nervous by the new - to want what we can never have, to want things not to be rearranged. It would be better to be able to take the leap, which is to be able not only to live with change and newness, but even to help make it.

I'm not the type of person that just needs to feel concrete and like nothing's going to change. I revel in the change.

Leadership is about coping with change

There is no normal. What my job was a few years ago was completely different than what it is today. As soon as I have it dialed in, the company changes and the team changes and my role changes as a result. What the company needs is always evolving, and I don't get to choose what I want to do as much as I thought I would be now - which is OK. It keeps me in this position of learning new things and keeping me humble. There is always something I don't know, and I'm comfortable with that.

To meet the demands of the fast-changing competitive scene, we must simply learn to love change as much as we have hated it in the past.

My advice to you: live in the moment. Stay fluid and roll with those changes. Life is just a big extended improvisation. Embrace the ever changing, ever evolving world with the best rule I’ve ever found. Say 'YES AND.”

Rapid change, accommodating it can be one of the great human capacities. But living through it can be the stuff of stress and often suffering.

There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties or you alter yourself meeting them.

I would be a fool to put my feet down in a position where I can't accommodate metamorphoses.

If I learned anything from Betty coming into my life, it's to just be open to all the things that come along.

We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.

We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.

I believe it's less risky long-term to embrace change.

I just roll with the punches.

'Never Have Your Dog Stuffed' is really advice to myself, a reminder to myself not to avoid change or uncertainty, but to go with it, to surf into change.

We need to build change in to our systems and let these systems evolve as circumstances change. Change is inevitable, but we need to do a better job of dealing with it, because when we start building huge gleaming monoliths, I think we start getting into trouble.

We know that the hardest work is to keep yourself open to the world that technology hasn't tamed.

Change never bothers me, not really.

In this industry, where things change so quickly, I've found that having no expectations is the happiest way to go.