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Tracy Kidder
“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.”
Tracy Kidder, The Soul of a New Machine

Lisa Genova
“It is through the erosion of memory that time heals all wounds.”
Lisa Genova

Erik Larson
“Upon learning that Hall was the man who had invented the typewriter she used so often, the girl put her arms around his neck and gave him a huge hug and kiss. Forever afterward, whenever Hall told this story of how he met Helen Keller, tears would fill his eyes.”
Erik Larson, The Devil in the White City

Walter Isaacson
“On the day he unveiled the Macintosh, a reporter from Popular Science asked Jobs what type of market research he had done. Jobs responded by scoffing, "Did Alexander Graham Bell do any market research before he invented the telephone?”
Walter Isaacson, Steve Jobs

Margaret Wise Brown
“What's that?" said the cat-- "Faith."
"To believe what I tell you about what your don't know," said the fish.”
Margaret Wise Brown, The Little Island

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