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

Make it work, make it right, make it fast.

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.

A plan is an example of what could happen, not a prediction of what will happen.

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.

I've known people who have not mastered their tools who are good programmers, but not a tool master who remained a mediocre programmer.

Listening, Testing, Coding, Designing. That's all there is to software. Anyone who tells you different is selling something.