Maybe I'm old-school, but the most impactful books for me: * Operating Systems Concepts: Silberschatz et al * Compilers: Aho, Sethi, Ullman ("the dragon book")

Maybe I'm old-school, but the most impactful books for me: * Operating Systems Concepts: Silberschatz et al * Compilers: Aho, Sethi, Ullman ("the dragon book") * Transaction Processing: Jim Gray * Applied Cryptography: Bruce Schneier * Computer Graphics: Foley / van Dam