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XP (Extreme Programming) is a system of practices (you can use the m-word if you want to; we'd rather not, thank you) that a community of software developers is evolving to address the problems of quickly delivering quality software, and then evolving it to meet changing business needs.

— Kent Beck & Martin Fowler (2001)

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

Extreme Programming Explained (2000)

When you feel the need to write a comment, first try to refactor the code so that any comment becomes superfluous.

Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.

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

Kent Beck As cited in: Giles Bowkett (2007)

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

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