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In a similar vein, the writing and blog of Scott Adams:
http://dilbertblog.typepad.com/
The vast majority of it is humor, and the inspiring pieces are subtle, but they're like a honey bunch of oats in your cereal (except more rare (and with better metaphors than this)).
When I was a kid, the documentary series Connections . It was the first time I'd ever seen someone follow vectors through history instead of recounting it one period at a time, like most books and classes do. Discovering Lisp was a big one. This was in 1983, when the default programming language was Pascal. Lisp seemed (and in retrospect was) startlingly better. There was no one single book or quotation, but I rememb…
http://www.math.ualberta.ca/~mss/misc/A%20Mathematician's%20...
YouTube links to the first episode of the series "Connections 1" (from 1978):
1/5 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTbCNycm0nQ
2/5 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlKykc6ipY4
3/5 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIVnaq0spdE
4/5 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNPL92tvqhY
5/5 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnRZ18GpOhg
The rest are on YouTube also, as well as bittorent:
http://thepiratebay.org/tor/4039213/BBC_-_Connections_-__Com...
Depending on whether or not you think paying ~$500 for them would serve "to promote the progress of science and useful arts", you might be legally obliged to buy them on Amazon.
I'm not sure if "The Man in the Grey Flannel Suit" changed my life, but it reassured me I was on the right track in starting a business. It reads very well today and I'd recommend it to any professional. I was particularly struck by this quote: "I really don't know what I was looking for when I got back from the war, but it seemed as though all I could see was a lot of bright young men in grey flannel suits rushing a…
My Mom teaching me to code in 6th grade.
When I was a kid, the documentary series Connections . It was the first time I'd ever seen someone follow vectors through history instead of recounting it one period at a time, like most books and classes do. Discovering Lisp was a big one. This was in 1983, when the default programming language was Pascal. Lisp seemed (and in retrospect was) startlingly better. There was no one single book or quotation, but I rememb…
When I was a kid, the documentary series Connections . It was the first time I'd ever seen someone follow vectors through history instead of recounting it one period at a time, like most books and classes do. Discovering Lisp was a big one. This was in 1983, when the default programming language was Pascal. Lisp seemed (and in retrospect was) startlingly better. There was no one single book or quotation, but I rememb…
maybe "Let Our Options Go!" or "The American Semiconductor Industry: Winner or Whiners?" or "An Entrepreneur's View of American Competitiveness"