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Description

Computers have changed since 1981, when Tracy Kidder memorably recorded the drama, comedy, and excitement of one companys efforts to bring a new microcomputer to market. What has not changed is the feverish pace of the high-tech industry, the go-for-broke approach to business that has caused... read more

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Memorable Quotes

  • “He would leave his office door ajar, as an invitation, and, leaning back, his hands falled still, he would entertain almost any visitor. West had a wild air, as if his office were a cage.”

First Sentence

FOR A TIME after the first pieces of Route 495 were laid down across central Massachusetts, in the middle 1960s, the main hazard to drivers was deer.

Authors & Contributors

  1. Tracy Kidder (Author)
 

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