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Tracy Kidder Quote: “Yet it is a fact, not entirely lost on management consultants, that some people would rather work twelve hours a day of their own choosing than eight that are prescribed. Provided, of course, that the work is interesting. That was the main thing.”

101. “Yet it is a fact, not entirely lost on management consultants, that some people would rather work twelve hours a day of their own choosing than eight that are prescribed. Provided, of course, that the work is interesting. That was the main thing.”

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Tracy Kidder Quote: “Above all, Rasala wanted around him engineers who took an interest in the entire computer, not just in the parts that they had designed.”

102. “Above all, Rasala wanted around him engineers who took an interest in the entire computer, not just in the parts that they had designed.”

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Tracy Kidder Quote: “Rasala had named the two new prototypes Tartis and Gallifrey, after the home planet and time machine of Dr. Who, the protagonist of a science fiction show on public TV.”

103. “Rasala had named the two new prototypes Tartis and Gallifrey, after the home planet and time machine of Dr. Who, the protagonist of a science fiction show on public TV.”

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Tracy Kidder Quote: “It was an IBM machine, archaic now but gaudy then. The university owned it, in effect, and it lay inside a room that none but the machine’s professional caretakers could enter during the day. But Alsing found out that a student could just walk into that room at night and play with the computer. Alsing didn’t drink much and he never took any other drugs. “I was a midnight programmer,” he confessed.”

104. “It was an IBM machine, archaic now but gaudy then. The university owned it, in effect, and it lay inside a room that none but the machine’s professional caretakers could enter during the day. But Alsing found out that a student could just walk into that room at night and play with the computer. Alsing didn’t drink much and he never took any other drugs. “I was a midnight programmer,” he confessed.”

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Tracy Kidder Quote: “It was the time of night when the odd feeling of not being quite in focus comes and goes, and all things are mysterious.”

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

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Tracy Kidder Quote: “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.”

106. “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.”

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Tracy Kidder Quote: “Much of the engineering of computers takes place in silence, while engineers pace in hallways or sit alone and gaze at blank pages.”

107. “Much of the engineering of computers takes place in silence, while engineers pace in hallways or sit alone and gaze at blank pages.”

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Tracy Kidder Quote: “Executives might make the final decisions about what would be produced, but engineers would provide most of the ideas for new products. After all, engineers were the people who really knew the state of the art and who were therefore best equipped to prophesy changes in it.”

108. “Executives might make the final decisions about what would be produced, but engineers would provide most of the ideas for new products. After all, engineers were the people who really knew the state of the art and who were therefore best equipped to prophesy changes in it.”

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Tracy Kidder Quote: “He would come to feel that history, even more than memory, distorts the present of the past by focusing on big events and making one forget that most people living in the present are otherwise preoccupied, that for them omens often don’t exist.”

109. “He would come to feel that history, even more than memory, distorts the present of the past by focusing on big events and making one forget that most people living in the present are otherwise preoccupied, that for them omens often don’t exist.”

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Tracy Kidder Quote: “En route to California I had a few drinks with an American executive for Falstaff Brewing Company who said he’d been a hobo from ‘37 to ‘39. He talked about a friend of his who had lost his legs beneath a freight train and died. He told me he knew something about farm labor contractors. “Killers,” he called them. And said it again, “Killers.”

110. “En route to California I had a few drinks with an American executive for Falstaff Brewing Company who said he’d been a hobo from ‘37 to ‘39. He talked about a friend of his who had lost his legs beneath a freight train and died. He told me he knew something about farm labor contractors. “Killers,” he called them. And said it again, “Killers.”

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Tracy Kidder Quote: “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.”

111. “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.”

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Tracy Kidder Quote: “At the level of the microcode, physical and abstract meet. The.”

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

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Tracy Kidder Quote: “When the veterans in the group were growing up, computers were quite rare and expensive, but Veres went to school in the age when anyone with a little money and skill could make up a small personal system. Veres says that what he does at home is different enough from what he does at work to serve as recreation for him. At work he deals with hardware; when he’s at home, he focuses on software – reading programming manuals and creating new software for his own computer.”

113. “When the veterans in the group were growing up, computers were quite rare and expensive, but Veres went to school in the age when anyone with a little money and skill could make up a small personal system. Veres says that what he does at home is different enough from what he does at work to serve as recreation for him. At work he deals with hardware; when he’s at home, he focuses on software – reading programming manuals and creating new software for his own computer.”

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Tracy Kidder Quote: “Look, I don’t have to get official recognition for anything I do. Ninety-eight percent of the thrill comes from knowing that the thing you designed works, and works almost the way you expected it would. If that happens, part of you is in that machine.”

114. “Look, I don’t have to get official recognition for anything I do. Ninety-eight percent of the thrill comes from knowing that the thing you designed works, and works almost the way you expected it would. If that happens, part of you is in that machine.”

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Tracy Kidder Quote: “Listening to the man’s story, Jim felt he’d been granted a privilege. This was intimate contact with life, the very thing he had missed during all those years of reading philosophy.”

115. “Listening to the man’s story, Jim felt he’d been granted a privilege. This was intimate contact with life, the very thing he had missed during all those years of reading philosophy.”

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Tracy Kidder Quote: “If you do the right thing well, you avoid futility.”

116. “If you do the right thing well, you avoid futility.”

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Tracy Kidder Quote: “Microcomputer companies sold equipment as if it were corn, in large quantities; they spent most of their money making things and competed not by being polite but by being aggressive. Minicomputer companies split the differences more or less; they sold some machines and service to actual users, but spent most of their money on hardware and did a big business by selling machines in quantity to OEMs.”

117. “Microcomputer companies sold equipment as if it were corn, in large quantities; they spent most of their money making things and competed not by being polite but by being aggressive. Minicomputer companies split the differences more or less; they sold some machines and service to actual users, but spent most of their money on hardware and did a big business by selling machines in quantity to OEMs.”

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Tracy Kidder Quote: “West once said, “An analyzer costs ten thousand dollars. Overtime for engineers is free.”

118. “West once said, “An analyzer costs ten thousand dollars. Overtime for engineers is free.”

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Tracy Kidder Quote: “I think I wanted to see how complicated things happen,” West said years later. “There’s some notion of control, it seems to me, that you can derive in a world full of confusion if you at least understand how things get put together. Even if you can’t under stand every little part, how infernal machines get put together.”

119. “I think I wanted to see how complicated things happen,” West said years later. “There’s some notion of control, it seems to me, that you can derive in a world full of confusion if you at least understand how things get put together. Even if you can’t under stand every little part, how infernal machines get put together.”

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Tracy Kidder Quote: “Most of the patients I’ve been close to over these thirty-two years are dead. So there’s a certain sadness and moral outrage that I can’t get rid of. But when you work with people who’ve had so little chance in life, there’s a lot you can do. You try to take care of people, meet them where they are, figure out who they are, figure out what they need, how you can ease their suffering. I was drafted into this job, I didn’t pick it, but I lucked into the best job I can imagine.”

120. “Most of the patients I’ve been close to over these thirty-two years are dead. So there’s a certain sadness and moral outrage that I can’t get rid of. But when you work with people who’ve had so little chance in life, there’s a lot you can do. You try to take care of people, meet them where they are, figure out who they are, figure out what they need, how you can ease their suffering. I was drafted into this job, I didn’t pick it, but I lucked into the best job I can imagine.”

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Tracy Kidder Quote: “In many cases, a small and daily growing computer company did not fall on hard times because people suddenly stopped wanting to buy its products. On the contrary, a company was more likely to asphyxiate on its own success.”

121. “In many cases, a small and daily growing computer company did not fall on hard times because people suddenly stopped wanting to buy its products. On the contrary, a company was more likely to asphyxiate on its own success.”

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Tracy Kidder Quote: “Money is a fictional thing that is supposed to go around. Hoarding it is a sin.”

122. “Money is a fictional thing that is supposed to go around. Hoarding it is a sin.”

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