Elon Musk: "I know it's cliche, but Lord of the Rings is my favorite book ever."
Naval Ravikant: "Loved Lord of The Rings and other fiction when [I was] younger."
As a teenager, Peter Thiel's favorite book was 'The Lord of the Rings,' which he read again and again.
Paul Graham's answer to "Any book recommendations for young adults?"
Reid Hoffman: "The book that I’ve most often read is Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings.
Paul Graham: "It's a great book, probably in my all time top 100."
Elon Musk: "[Benjamin Franklin] was an entrepreneur. He started from nothing. Basically just a runaway kid."
Charlie Munger recommended 'The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin' in his book Poor Charlie's Almanack.
Included on Jamie Dimon's list of favorite books he sent to JP Morgan summer interns in 2010.
Fred Wilson: "A great one"
Austen Allred: "[One of the books] that has inspired me the most or changed the way I live."
Paul Graham mentioned this book on Twitter.
One of Elon Musk's favorite books about space.
Paul Graham: "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress made me want to work on AI, which led to Lisp."
One of Paul Graham's answers to "What should I read to learn more about history?"
One of Sam Altman's recommended books for young startup founders.
Paul Graham: "If you want to learn more about hunter gatherers I strongly recommend Elizabeth Marshall Thomas's 'The Old Way'."
This book was on Sam Altman's bookshelf.
Paul Graham: "White's Medieval Technology and Social Change is the most fabulous book."
Sam Altman: "It really is great."
Paul Graham: "It is a wonderful book"
One of Matt Ridley's all-time favorite books that he recommends to everybody.
Paul Graham: "Amazing"
Sam Altman: "It was excellent!"
Paul Graham mentioned 'The Origin of Species' on Twitter.
One of Richard Branson's top books to read in a lifetime.
Paul Graham: "[My kids and I] have already read 'The Hobbit' twice."
Paul Graham's answer to 'What’s the most beautiful book you’ve ever read?'"
Paul Graham: "Among the most inspiring books I know."
One of Paul Graham's answers to 'What should I read to learn more about history?'
One of Paul Graham's answers to 'What should I read to learn more about history?'
One of Paul Graham's answers to 'What should I read to learn more about history?'
One of Paul Graham's answers to 'What should I read to learn more about history?'
One of Paul Graham's answers to 'What should I read to learn more about history?'
One of Paul Graham's answers to 'What should I read to learn more about history?'
Paul Graham: "Anjelica Huston's Story Lately Told is wonderful."
One of Paul Graham's answers to 'What’s your favorite book that almost nobody else knows or talks about?'
One of Paul Graham's answers to 'What should I read to learn more about history?'
We are living in the computer age, in a world increasingly designed and engineered by computer programmers and software designers, by people who call themselves hackers. Who are these people, what motivates them, and why should you care?
Consider these facts: Everything around us is turning into computers. Your typewriter is gone, replaced by a computer. Your phone has turned into a computer. So has your camera. Soon your TV will. Your car was not only designed on computers, but has more processing power in it than a room-sized mainframe did in 1970. Letters, encyclopedias, newspapers, and even your local store are being replaced by the Internet.
Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age, by Paul Graham, explains this world and the motivations of the people who occupy it. In clear, thoughtful prose that draws on illuminating historical examples, Graham takes readers on an unflinching exploration into what he calls "an intellectual Wild West."
The ideas discussed in this book will have a powerful and lasting impact on how we think, how we work, how we develop technology, and how we live. Topics include the importance of beauty in software design, how to make wealth, heresy and free speech, the programming language renaissance, the open-source movement, digital design, internet startups, and more.
Teaching users new and more powerful ways of thinking about programs, this two-in-one text contains a tutorial—full of examples—that explains all the essential concepts of Lisp programming, plus an up-to-date summary of ANSI Common Lisp, listing every operator in the language.
Informative and fun, it gives users everything they need to start writing programs in Lisp both efficiently and effectively, and highlights such innovative Lisp features as automatic memory management, manifest typing, closures, and more.
Dividing material into two parts, the tutorial half of the book covers subject-by-subject the essential core of Common Lisp, and sums up lessons of preceding chapters in two examples of real applications: a backward-chainer, and an embedded language for object-oriented programming.
Consisting of three appendices, the summary half of the book gives source code for a selection of widely used Common Lisp operators, with definitions that offer a comprehensive explanation of the language and provide a rich source of real examples; summarizes some differences between ANSI Common Lisp and Common Lisp as it was originally defined in 1984; and contains a concise description of every function, macro, and special operator in ANSI Common Lisp. The book concludes with a section of notes containing clarifications, references, and additional code.