FamousPeopleCommentOnXp

add you favourite spoof quotes here...

"It's a very difficult job. The only way we're going to get through this is to work as a team. That means you do everything I say." - Michael Caine takes up XP coaching in the Italian Job

In a quote on the BBC's radio 4, Donald Rumsfeld comments on the fact that there are known unknowns [failures], but it's the unknown unknowns [errors] that he's really concerned about.

Commenting on the inadequacy of daily builds and why he uses CruiseControl:

"A day is a long time in software development." -- Harold Wilson

A word on how Xp pratices can seem counterintuitive at first and how first-hand experience is often required to convince...

"Unfortunately, no-one can be told what Xp is. You have to see it for yourself" - from Mr. L Fishburne in "The Matrix"

"You've got to try it to love it" - Dr. Pepper

You'll love it; it's a way of life - Frank Zappa

I hated it until I loved it - Anonymous (FromRussiaWithLove)

"We're all responsible for the source code, but some of us are more responsible for it than others." - George Orwell

"I'm bored with Agile Methods." -- Martin Fowler (Not a spoof quote - he actually said that at XpDay3. Apparently he's more interested in what constitutes good design.)