SICP is a great book to learn some neat programming from, but it wasn't really a classic text in the same sense as the rest of the list, which is mostly origina

SICP is a great book to learn some neat programming from, but it wasn't really a classic text in the same sense as the rest of the list, which is mostly original work or something close to it. Personally, I think surveys of a field like Russel/Norvig's AI textbook, SICP, or CLRS are more worthwhile to spend time reading compared to original literature.