The C Programming Language (Kernighan & Ritchie) Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! (R. P. Feynman) What do you care what other people think? Further adventur

The C Programming Language (Kernighan & Ritchie) Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! (R. P. Feynman) What do you care what other people think? Further adventures of a curious character. (R. P. Feynman) I serendipitously found the Feynman books right after I dropped out of college while I was flying around interviewing for jobs. It was a stressful time and I was feeling pretty dejected, but then I found these amazing books: this Feynman guy was running around having fun and enjoying life, rejecting the notion of convention for the sake of convention, but the amazing thing was that he did it while being a completely real and serious scientist. Godel, Escher, Bach was pretty good too, but it wasn't a transformative experience for me. It probably would've been great if I had read it when I was 14 or 15 when my dad first gave me his copy... but I read the first few pages and decided I didn't want to read 1000 pages of flowery literary/historical junk.