Reading list:
- The Design Principles Behind Smalltalk - Dan Ingalls http://web.archive.org/web/20070213165045/users.ipa.net/~dwighth/smalltalk/byte_aug81/design_principles_behind_smalltalk.html
- The Art of Creation - Arthur Koestler http://www.amazon.com/Act-Creation-Arkana-Arthur-Koestler/dp/0140191917/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1359758634&sr=1-2&keywords=the+art+of+creation
- The Sciences of the Artificial - Herb Simon http://www.amazon.com/The-Sciences-Artificial-3rd-Edition/dp/0262691914/ref=tmm_pap_title_0?ie=UTF8&qid=1359758594&sr=8-2
- The Center of Why - Alan Kay http://www.vpri.org/pdf/m2004002_center.pdf
- Remote Procedure Calls Butler Lampson http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/blampson/28-RPC/28-RPCAbstract.htm
- The Ether Network - Bob Metcalf http://ethernethistory.typepad.com/papers/ethernetbobmemo.pdf
- The Mind at Night - The New Science Of How And Why We Dream - Andrea Rock
- Coders at Work - Dan Ingalls Section http://www.codersatwork.com/dan-ingalls.html http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1430219483?ie=UTF8&tag=gigamonkeys-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1430219483
- A Protocol for Packet Network Intercommunication - Vint Cerf and Robert Kahn (i.e. the IP / Internet paper)
Quotes:
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"A language that doesn't challenge the way you think isn't a language worth learning" - Alan Perlis (i.e. perlis languages)
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"The boundaries of my language are the boundaries of my world" - Wittgenstein: From Mysticism to Ordinary Language : A Study of Viennese Positivism and the Thought of Ludwig Wittgenstein http://www.amazon.com/Wittgenstein-Mysticism-Ordinary-Positivism-Philosophy/dp/0887063985/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1359776616&sr=8-1&keywords=wittgenstein+from+mysticism+to+ordinary+language
References:
- Alan Kay: Big Ideas Are Sometimes Powerful Ideas http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0nKvXRgEoQ
- Programming and Scaling - Alan Kay HPI Colloquiem Potsdam http://www.tele-task.de/de/archive/lecture/overview/5819/
- Ars Technica: Evolution of Ethernet http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/news/2011/07/ethernet-how-does-it-work.ars