181 Quotes by Tracy Kidder

Part of the fascination,” he said, “is just little boys who never grew up, playing with Erector sets. Engineers just don’t lose that, and if you do lose it, you just can’t be an engineer anymore.

It seemed as though Margaret hovered near Alice, aware of Alice when Alice didn’t seem to be aware of Margaret.

What I like about non-fiction is that it covers such a huge territory. The best non-fiction is also creative.

A great deal has been written on the question of how to motivate industrial workers. Presumably such literature arises because so many jobs have been made so trivial that few people can find any meaning at all in them. It may be that techniques of management alone can’t cure the problem. But clearly, for even the most potentially interesting jobs to be meaningful, there must be managers who are willing to throw away the management handbooks and take some risks.

Montaigne blessed the form when he said, “If I knew my own mind, I would not make essays. I would make decisions.

When I select a topic, it’s usually a commitment of two to three years of my life.

At the level of the microcode, physical and abstract meet. The.

I felt vigorous and cheered by borrowed popularity.

The combination of domesticity and wildness – that’s a deep expression.