Alan Kay's reading list
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Alan Kay's reading list
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#2Note that the only book specific to computer language on there is McCarthy's Lisp manual.
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#3That's a lot of books! I wish there were a top 5.
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#4It takes a lot of work to become so pompous.
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#5It takes a lot of work to become so pompous.
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#6I'm disappointed not to see Aristotle. On the other hand not totally surprised, either.
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#7It's an interesting selection overall, however I couldn't help but notice that the "Politics & Economy" section looks like neither politics nor economy have ever existed anywhere but in the US : )
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#8Bookmarked this list the first time I saw it on HN seven years ago. I have been slowly working my way through it, with some personal curation, ever since.
Some of my favorites:
Conscientious Objections
Freedom and Culture
Visual Thinking
Notes on a Synthesis of Form
The Character of Physical Law
and anything Tufte
Here is the old post, with some good discussion:
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