Tracy Kidder
Tracy Kidder
John Tracy Kidderis an American writer of nonfiction books. He received the Pulitzer Prize for his The Soul of a New Machine, about the creation of a new computer at Data General Corporation. He has received praise and awards for other works, including his biography of Paul Farmer, a doctor and anthropologist, titled Mountains Beyond Mountains...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNon-Fiction Author
Date of Birth12 November 1945
CountryUnited States of America
imagined layers saw side
Northampton has layers and layers. I saw a whole side of it I didn't know, hadn't imagined had existed.
returning seems town wonder
Returning to Northampton, I thought: here's a town that seems to be working pretty well, and I wonder why.
imposing landscape means order painting
Painting the landscape was, in a sense, another means of exerting control, of imposing order on the disorderly.
spring adventure worry
Don't worry about being worried. You're heading out on an adventure and you can always change your mind along the way and try something else.
coward weapons cynicism
among a coward's weapons, cynicism is the nastiest of all
expression combination wildness
The combination of domesticity and wildness - that's a deep expression
england continuity programming-languages
Continuity is one of the things I like about New England.
vermont units deals
I'm going to a commune in Vermont and will deal with no unit of time shorter than a season.
mad computer
I've gotta keep life and computers separate, or else I'm gonna go mad.
differences progress development
Obviously, computers have made differences. They have fostered the development of spaceships- as well as a great increase in junk mail.
grateful writing grace
I am grateful to Stacy Schiff first of all because she can write a sentence-because she offers us her scholarship with wit, clarity, and grace. Once again, she has done what only the best writers can do: she has made the world new, again.
clubs obsessive-compulsive strange
Curing yourself of obsessive compulsive disorder by going to a strip club is pretty strange.
airplane people alive
That's when I feel most alive, he told me once on an airplane, when I'm helping people.
writing enough interest
You can write about anything, and if you write well enough, even the reader with no intrinsic interest in the subject will become involved.