Beck
Beck
Beck Hansen, known by stage name Beck, is an American singer, songwriter, producer and multi-instrumentalist. He is mostly known for his musical composition, as well as a palette of sonic genres...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMusician
Date of Birth8 July 1970
CountryUnited States of America
quality cost development
Of the four project development variables - scope, cost, time and quality - quality isn't really a free variable. The only possible values are "excellent" and "insanely excellent", depending on whether lives are at stake.
tests cost testing
If testing costs more than not testing, then don't test.
giving-up simple ideas
Code wants to be simple... I had to give up the idea that I had the perfect vision of the system to which the system had to conform. Instead, I had to accept that I was only the vehicle for the system expressing its own desire for simplicity. My vision could shape initial direction, and my attention to the desires of the code could affect how quickly and how well the system found its desired shape, but the system is riding me much more than I am riding the system.
Make it work, make it right, make it fast.
style development argument
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.
design forever simplicity
How good the design is doesn't matter near as much as whether the design is getting better or worse. If it is getting better, day by day, I can live with it forever. If it is getting worse, I will die.
data people important
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.
example predictions plans
A plan is an example of what could happen, not a prediction of what will happen.
team technology inability
The business changes. The technology changes. The team changes. The team members change. The problem isn't change, per se, because change is going to happen; the problem, rather, is the inability to cope with change when it comes.
people tools masters
I've known people who have not mastered their tools who are good programmers, but not a tool master who remained a mediocre programmer.
feelings littles responsible
I don't like the feeling, but I've got to say that a little fear makes me a more focused, more responsible programmer.
habit programmers
I'm not a great programmer; I'm just a good programmer with great habits.
country gdp today
Western countries in particular can today no longer be separated from Muslim societies, because they have them within themselves. They are themselves internally globalized.
fate community firsts
In the first instance, therefore, global terrorism created a kind of global community sharing a common fate, something we had previously considered impossible.