A few books that inspire me to write The World's Fifteenth Least Salable Computer book: Robert Britcher's "The Limits of Software", Ben Ross Schneider's "Travels in Computerland", Bill Blunden's "Software Exorcism", and Michael Kupferschmid's "Classical FORTRAN"
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More broadly, John D. Clark's "Ignition!" and Robert A. Weinberg's "One Renegade Cell"
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"One Renegade Cell" conveys in dense but fascinating prose the complexity of cancer and the cell's defenses against it. It can be daunting reading because the subject is subtle and complex but if you look at Weinberg's medical text on cancer, you realize how much he simplified
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That he communicated what he did as clearly and engagingly as he did is pretty awe-inspiring.
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There should be a reading list of great books like that, in any domain.
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