Richard Feynman, TDD Master

For Richard, figuring out these problems was a kind of a game. He always started by asking very basic questions like, “What is the simplest example?” or “How can you tell if the answer is right?” He asked questions until he reduced the problem to some essential puzzle that he thought he would be able to solve.

– Richard Feynman and the Connection Machine

In case you were wondering, test-driven “development” doesn’t just apply to development. It’s an approach to solving problems that keeps us striving for elegance, simplicity and importance.

It’s a lot bigger than us developers.