Alan Kay
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Recommended Books
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Computation
A Programming, Language
Mythology
The Mythical Man-Month
The Sciences of the Artificial
The Art of the Metaobject Protocol
The Principia
Molecular Biology of the Cell
Source & Proof
“It is actually a 'math book' — with lots of ideas, theorems, proofs, etc., — but presented in the friendliest way imaginable by a great mind.”
“This has the same thought expanding properties of Lisp.”
“A few more books like this, and by the time I got to first grade I had been ruined for the 'single book single truth' ideas of school and church.”
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“A real gem for helping to think about design and implementations.”
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“For many years it has been the best single volume narrative of 'life from scratch'.”
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