Sometimes the problem has to mature before the solution can mature.

If testing costs more than not testing, then don't test.

The community isn't nearly as afraid as it thinks it is.

Responsible Development shares many practices with XP but the roots are different. Responsible Development's values are honesty, transparency, accountability and responsibility. These lead me to pairing, test-first, incremental design, continuous integration and so on because they support the values.

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.

I don't like the feeling, but I've got to say that a little fear makes me a more focused, more responsible programmer.

I mean, source code in files; how quaint, how seventies!