181 Quotes by Tracy Kidder

Some problems are easy to find and hard to fix; some are hard to find and easy to fix; some go both ways.

I’ve gotta keep life and computers separate, or else I’m gonna go mad.

I want a UI that is so simple that drunks can use it and ADDs won’t be distracted away.

If you live in the same small place long enough, something you don’t like is bound to happen.

Good teachers put snags in the river of children passing by, and over the years, they redirect hundreds of lives. Many people find it easy to imagine unseen webs of malevolent conspiracy theory around the world, and they are not always wrong. But there is also an innocence that conspires to hold humanity together, and it is made of people who can never fully know the good that they have done.

He opened all the drawers in his desk. All were empty, except that a box of staples lay in one. He pocketed the staples. “I already took the polygraph.

It was the time of night when the odd feeling of not being quite in focus comes and goes, and all things are mysterious.

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.

That’s when I feel most alive, he told me once on an airplane, when I’m helping people.