Kent Beck Quotes

'Programming' is a four-letter word.

I am a programmer.

Many days I don't write any code at all, and some days I spend all day writing code.

We don't know how to actually code, but I wish that I did. It's so much harder than anyone could possibly imagine - it's like learning German.

I don't know how to code. I should know how to code.

As technologists, we all write code.

Somebody writing a subroutine is unbelievable boring.

I never have been a coder, outside of when I was twelve or something, like on the Atari 1200 XP or whatever I had.

When you learn to code, it opens up for you to learn many other things.

Thus, the standard library will serve as both a tool and as a teacher.

Programming is usually taught by examples.

Coding - everyone thinks it's a superpower. And so when you feel like, 'I've learned how to code,' and you say to your mom or the girl sitting next to you, 'I know how that app is built, I know the logic behind how that was created' - that's powerful.

I would try and barter a cake for some help with coding. I'm not the best coder. I have some basic HTML but that's about it.

You can learn how to code today. You can build this same thing that you're looking at every day, that you're tweeting on, that you're snapping on, and I feel like that conversation needs to be had.

Software Engineering might be science; but that's not what I do. I'm a hacker, not an engineer.

All of my friends who have younger siblings who are going to college or high school - my number one piece of advice is: You should learn how to program.

Between rounds of speed chess I read enough of a programming manual to teach myself to write programs on the school's DEC mainframe in the language Basic.

There was something amazingly enticing about programming.

I'm thinking of going to programming school. Learn how to sit down at any computer and learn to do anything on it. That's all I have left and have interest in.

You might not think that programmers are artists, but programming is an extremely creative profession. It's logic-based creativity.

Sometimes it's not always about what you can see or hear but what's under the hood of a game that's most impressive. Between those thousands and thousands of lines of code, magic happens. Sometimes the most amazing feats of gaming wizardry happen without you even noticing.

I fix things now and then, more often tweak HTML and make scripts to do things.

After graduating in 1973 I went into the programming field.

Software development is technical activity conducted by human beings.

Code writers, they are my idols.