Knuth's book "Thinks a Computer Scientist Rarely Talks About" (http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~uno/things.html http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~uno/thing

Knuth's book "Thinks a Computer Scientist Rarely Talks About" (http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~uno/things.html http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~uno/things.html) gets in to this topic. I found it to be a great read.