Good Books to Read (From Quora)

• On the Shortness of Life by Seneca: This is the wisest book in the history of many. It have been kicking butts out of sofa for approx. 2000 years.
• Of Human Freedom by Epictetus: Another stoic classic, which is just so insanely deep. This should be on everyones curriculum.
• The Defining Decade by Meg Jay: All the things your parents didn't tell you about work, love and your body. If you have kids, it is essential. If you are in, or apporaching your twenties, it is obligatory. You can only buy this book too slowly.
• Zen and The Art of Motercycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig: This fiction will stay with you for a long time, and give you a new perspective on life.
• Mastery by Robert Greene: Tells the story of Da Vinci, Darwin and other titans of history, and how they came to be. From there, Greene discovers virtues of success largely forgotten in our busy world.
• Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell: This book will make you understand, or at least let you peak into the complex system of success. It helped me a lot to focus on important factors instead of worrying about them which you cannot change.

Mind Expanding Books and Authors

Some the Mind Expanding Books:

• Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid: Douglas R. Hofstadter
• Surfaces and Essences: Analogy as the Fuel and Fire of Thinking: Douglas R. Hofstadter
• Organized Mind - Daniel Levitin
• Sophie's World - Jostein Gaarder
• The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business: Charles Duhigg
• Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
• How the Mind Works: Steven Pinker
• The Better Angels of Our Nature: Steven Pinker
• Blank Slate: Steven Pinker
• Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain: Oliver Sacks
• Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely
• Why Does the World Exist? by Jim Holt
• Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking by Daniel C. Dennett
• The Paradox of Choice: Why More is Less by Barry Schwartz
• The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
• Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies: Jared M. Diamond
• The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World: David
• A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future: Daniel H. Pink
• Prisoner's Dilemma - William Poundstone
• The Code Breakers - David Kahn
• "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!" by Richard Feynman
• "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
• Freakonomics - Stephen D.Levitt
• Prometheus Rising - Robert Anton Wilson

Books by the following Authors:

• Steven Pinker
• Oliver Sacks
• Daniel Kahneman
• Douglas R. Hofstadter
• Carl Sagan
• Robert Anton Wilson
  
• Nassim Nicholas Taleb
• Marvin Minskey
• Donald E.Knuth
• Raymond M. Smullyan
• Roger Penrose
• Richard Dawkins
• Stephen Hawking
• Brian Greene 

 

The Great Hunt

After a longtime, I have completed reading "The Great Hunt" by Robert Jordan. This is the second novel in a 16-parts series named "The Wheel of Time". Enjoy reading the series :-)

The story line is becoming stronger and all the characters in the series are getting equal weightage.

Some of my favorite quotes from The Great Hunt:

“There is one rule, above all others, for being a man. Whatever comes, face it on your feet.”- Lan to Rand.

“I do not like odd things until I can understand them.”

“A young wolfhound must meet his first wolf someday, but if the wolf sees him as a puppy, if he acts the puppy, the wolf will surely kill him. The wolfhound must be a wolfhound in the wolf's eyes even more than in his own, if he is to survive.”  - Lan to Rand before meeting Amyrlin Seat.

“A pig painted gold is still a pig.”

“Death is lighter than a feather, duty heavier than a mountain.”  - Rand

"Mother says a stick and honey always work better than a stick alone." - Elayne

The Wheel of Time - The Eye of the World

At last I have completed reading the "The Eye of the World", the first book of the 15 books Series of "The Wheel of Time" by Robert Jordan. I really enjoyed the book.

I recommend it for all the fantasy readers.

Here are some of the Quotes from The Eye of the World:


"Relax lad. Take life as it comes. Run when you have to, fight when you must, rest when you can."

"The Wheel weaves as the Wheel wills. No eye can see the Pattern until it is woven."

"You truly are ta'veren, Rand. The Pattern weaves itself around you, and you stand in the heart of it."

"The rose petal floats on water. The kingfisher flashes above the pond. Life and beauty swirl in the midst of death."
"The Wheel weaves as the Wheel wills. No eye can see the Pattern until it is woven."
"Relax lad. Take life as it comes. Run when you have to, fight when you must, rest when you can."

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Discworld Reading Order

Influential Books Every Programmer Should Read

• Code Complete (2nd edition) by Steve McConnell
• The Pragmatic Programmer
• Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
• The C Programming Language by Kernighan and Ritchie
• Introduction to Algorithms by Cormen, Leiserson, Rivest & Stein
• Design Patterns by the Gang of Four
• Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code
• The Mythical Man Month
• The Art of Computer Programming by Donald Knuth
• Compilers: Principles, Techniques and Tools by Alfred V. Aho, Ravi Sethi and Jeffrey D. Ullman
• Gödel, Escher, Bach by Douglas Hofstadter
• Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship by Robert C. Martin
• Effective C++
• More Effective C++
• CODE by Charles Petzold
• Programming Pearls by Jon Bentley
• Working Effectively with Legacy Code by Michael C. Feathers
• Peopleware by Demarco and Lister
• Coders at Work by Peter Seibel
• Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!
• Effective Java 2nd edition
• Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture by Martin Fowler
• The Little Schemer
• The Seasoned Schemer
• Why's (Poignant) Guide to Ruby
• The Inmates Are Running The Asylum: Why High Tech Products Drive Us Crazy and How to Restore the Sanity
• The Art of Unix Programming
• Test-Driven Development: By Example by Kent Beck
• Practices of an Agile Developer
• Don't Make Me Think
• Agile Software Development, Principles, Patterns, and Practices by Robert C. Martin
• Domain Driven Designs by Eric Evans
• The Design of Everyday Things by Donald Norman
• Modern C++ Design by Andrei Alexandrescu
• Best Software Writing I by Joel Spolsky
• The Practice of Programming by Kernighan and Pike
• Pragmatic Thinking and Learning: Refactor Your Wetware by Andy Hunt
• Software Estimation: Demystifying the Black Art by Steve McConnel
• The Passionate Programmer (My Job Went To India) by Chad Fowler
• Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution
• Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs
• Writing Solid Code
• JavaScript - The Good Parts
• Getting Real by 37 Signals
• Foundations of Programming by Karl Seguin
• Computer Graphics: Principles and Practice in C (2nd Edition)
• Thinking in Java by Bruce Eckel
• The Elements of Computing Systems
• Refactoring to Patterns by Joshua Kerievsky
• Modern Operating Systems by Andrew S. Tanenbaum
• The Annotated Turing
• Things That Make Us Smart by Donald Norman
• The Timeless Way of Building by Christopher Alexander
• The Deadline: A Novel About Project Management by Tom DeMarco
• The C++ Programming Language (3rd edition) by Stroustrup
• Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture
• Computer Systems - A Programmer's Perspective
• Agile Principles, Patterns, and Practices in C# by Robert C. Martin
• Growing Object-Oriented Software, Guided by Tests
• Framework Design Guidelines by Brad Abrams
• Object Thinking by Dr. David West
• Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment by W. Richard Stevens
• Hackers and Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age
• The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder
• CLR via C# by Jeffrey Richter
• The Timeless Way of Building by Christopher Alexander
• Design Patterns in C# by Steve Metsker
• Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carol
• Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig
• About Face - The Essentials of Interaction Design
• Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations by Clay Shirky
• The Tao of Programming
• Computational Beauty of Nature
• Writing Solid Code by Steve Maguire
• Philip and Alex's Guide to Web Publishing
• Object-Oriented Analysis and Design with Applications by Grady Booch
• Effective Java by Joshua Bloch
• Computability by N. J. Cutland
• Masterminds of Programming
• The Tao Te Ching
• The Productive Programmer
• The Art of Deception by Kevin Mitnick
• The Career Programmer: Guerilla Tactics for an Imperfect World by Christopher Duncan
• Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming: Case studies in Common Lisp
• Masters of Doom
• Pragmatic Unit Testing in C# with NUnit by Andy Hunt and Dave Thomas with Matt Hargett
• How To Solve It by George Polya
• The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
• Smalltalk-80: The Language and its Implementation
• Writing Secure Code (2nd Edition) by Michael Howard
• Introduction to Functional Programming by Philip Wadler and Richard Bird
• No Bugs! by David Thielen
• Rework by Jason Freid and DHH
• JUnit in Action