181 Quotes by Tracy Kidder

It is the curse of humanity that it learns to tolerate even the most horrible situations by habituation.” “Medical education does not exist to provide students with a way of making a living, but to ensure the health of the community.” “The physicians are the natural attorneys of the poor, and the social problems should largely be solved by them.

Medicine is a social science, and politics is nothing but medicine on a large scale.

I think if the writing comes too easily, it shows – it’s usually hard to read.

If disease is an expression of individual life under unfavorable conditions, then epidemics must be indicative of mass disturbances of mass life.

When you burn out, you lose enthusiasm. I always loved computers. All of a sudden I just didn’t care. It was, all of a sudden, a job.

Things were here before you and will be here after you’re gone. The geographic features, especially, give you a sense of your own place in the world and in time.

It is not a large exaggeration to say that everything else in a computer exists in order to bring information swiftly to the ALU for manipulation; and for the ALU, adding is the mechanical equivalent of breathing. But.

The last thing I want to do is expend my energy trying to convince my own coworkers.

Infections and Inequalities.