Tracy Kidder Quote
Engineers want to produce something, said Wallach. I didn’t go to school for six years just to get a paycheck. I thought that if this is what engineering’s all about, the hell with it. He went to night school, to get a master’s in business administration. I was always looking for the buck. I’d get the M.B.A., go back to New York, and make some money, he figured. But he didn’t really want to do that. He wanted to build computers.
Tracy Kidder
Engineers want to produce something, said Wallach. I didn’t go to school for six years just to get a paycheck. I thought that if this is what engineering’s all about, the hell with it. He went to night school, to get a master’s in business administration. I was always looking for the buck. I’d get the M.B.A., go back to New York, and make some money, he figured. But he didn’t really want to do that. He wanted to build computers.
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About Tracy Kidder
Kidder is considered a literary journalist because of the strong story line and personal voice in his writing.: 5 He has cited as his writing influences John McPhee, A. J. Liebling, and George Orwell.: 127–128 In a 1984 interview he said, "McPhee has been my model. He's the most elegant of all the journalists writing today, I think.": 7
Kidder wrote in a 1994 essay, "In fiction, believability may have nothing to do with reality or even plausibility. It has everything to do with those things in nonfiction. I think that the nonfiction writer's fundamental job is to make what is true believable."