Alan Kay
Alan Kay is an American computer scientist renowned for pioneering work in object-oriented programming and the invention of the Smalltalk programming language.
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LISP 1.5 Programmer's Manual
I have called this the 'Maxwell’s Equations' of computing, because it presents a very large part of what’s important about programming languages. - Alan Kay
John McCarthy
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Advances in Programming and Non-Numerical Computation
One of the books that Bob Barton had us read in his famous advanced systems design class in 1967. - Alan Kay
L Fox
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The Principia
I have never forgotten the combined shock and thrill of making my way through this in my 20s. - Alan Kay
Isaac Newton
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Art in the Blood
[My wife] completely nailed the Arthur Conan Doyle voice of the characters and narrative, while being able to carry a marvelous story into the much larger realm of the novel. - Alan Kay
Bonnie MacBird
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The Organ-Builder
A very different kind of book. - Alan Kay
Francois Bedos de Celles
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Molecular Biology of the Cell
For many years it has been the best single volume narrative of 'life from scratch.' - Alan Kay
Bruce Alberts
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20000 Leagues Under the Sea
A formative book in so many ways. - Alan Kay
Jules Verne
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Molecular Biology of the Gene
A lovely book to read. - Alan Kay
James Watson
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Mythology
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. - Alan Kay
Edith Hamilton
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The Sciences of the Artificial
A much stronger way to think about computing — and what 'Computer Science' might mean. - Alan Kay
Herbert A Simon
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The Art of the Metaobject Protocol
A real gem for helping to think about design and implementations. - Alan Kay
Gregor Kiczales
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The Mythical Man-Month
An early look and experience with timeless truths (and gotchas) from systems building with teams - Alan Kay
Frederick P. Brooks Jr.
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Computation
It is actually a 'math book' — with lots of ideas, theorems, proofs, etc., — but presented in the friendliest way imaginable by a great mind. - Alan Kay
Marvin Lee Minsky
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A Programming Language
This has the same thought expanding properties of Lisp. - Alan Kay
Kenneth E. Iverson
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