[mnemonicsloth]

Seconded. Besides telling a familiar story in a very compelling way, Kidder has a genius for quotability:

One engineer, Josh Rosen, who burned out fighting nanosecond-level timing bugs was seduced by the attraction of commune living and left to live in the country. His resignation note declared, I’m going to a commune in Vermont and will deal with no unit of time shorter than a season.

Gems like this one appear about once every two pages, give or take.