Professor Tom's Rolling Reading List

Images about reading and books, inspirational quotes, booklists and the occasional note or book review.

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"Always make the audience suffer as much as possible." –Alfred Hitchcock

"Great advice!" –J.R.R. Martin

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Man is not willingly a political animal. The human male associates with his fellows less by desire than by habit, imitation, and the compulsion of circumstance; he does not love society so much as he fears solitude. He combines with other men because isolation endangers him, and because there are many things that can be done better together than alone; in his heart he is solitary individual, pitted heroically against the world. If the average man had had his way there would probably never have been any state. Even today he resents it, classes death with taxes, and yearns for that government which governs least. If he asks for many laws, it is only because he is sure that his neighbor needs them; privately he is an unphilosophical anarchist and thinks laws in his own case superfluous.

Will Durant Our Oriental Heritage first paragraph of Chapter 3, pg 21

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Teach Me to Write Better Code

Pragmatic Programmer by Andrew Hunt and David Thomas http://amzn.to/1oQeNy4

Clean Code by Robert C. Martin http://amzn.to/1oQeXpd

Code Complete, 2nd Edition by Steve McConnell http://amzn.to/20JM3Te

Working Effectively with Legacy Code by Michael Feathers http://amzn.to/20JMe0U

Refactoring by Martin Fowler http://amzn.to/1QpARM8

Refactoring to Patterns by Joshua Kerievsky http://amzn.to/1KZQdof

Pair Programming Illuminated by Laurie Williams and Robert Kessler http://amzn.to/20JMtZZ

Head First Design Patterns by Eric Freeman, Bert Bates, Kathy Sierra and Elisabeth Robson http://amzn.to/1oQfFTa

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How does my Operating System Work?

Operating Systems: Design and Implementation by Andrew S. Tannenbaum http://amzn.to/20JNyB5

The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System, 2nd Edition by Marshall Kirk McKusick, George V. Neville-Neil and Robert N.M. Watson http://amzn.to/20JNNft

Mac OS X Internals: A Systems Approach by Amit Singh http://amzn.to/1KZR1cN

Windows Internals 6th Edition by Mark E. Russinovich, David A. Solomon, and Alex Ionescu Part 1 http://amzn.to/1Okf4xH Part 2 http://amzn.to/1KZRewq

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Ba-dum-pum, tsss.

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Psychology, physics, and library humor, all in one. Love!!

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Booklist: Who’s Calling Me? The Real Inventor of the Telephone

The Telephone Gambit: Chasing Alexander Graham Bell's Secret by Seth Shulman

Telephone and Its Several Inventors: A History by Lewis Coe

Antonio and the Electric Scream--The Man Who Invented the Telephone by Sandra Meucci

Philipp Reis: Inventor of the Telephone by Silvanus Phillips Thompson

The Telephone Patent Conspiracy of 1876: The Elisha Gray-Alexander Bell Controversy and Its Many Players by A. Edward Evenson

Faxed: The Rise and Fall of the Fax Machine by Donald Kettl

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I asked the librarian for a book about Pavlov’s dog and Schroedinger’s cat.  She said it rang a bell but she wasn’t sure if it was there or not.

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Many of us now live like Russian dolls nestled in multiple layers of cultural identity. I was amused to read recently, for example, that nowadays being British “means driving home in a German car, stopping off to pick up some Belgian been and a Turkish kebab or an Indian takeaway, to spend the evening on Swedish furniture, watching American programs on a Japanese TV.” And the most British thing of all? “Suspicion of anything foreign.”

Ken Robinson, The Element (pg 154)

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When people decide to make a change, it's often because the work no longer does the emotional job they hired it to do, or because they want to shed some of the "jobs" came with the role.

Whitney Johnson [_Disrupt Yourself: Putting the Power of_ Disruptive Innovation _to Work_](http://amzn.to/1kQajVX) (pg 5-6)

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For the person who says, "I just want to do my (functional) job," the realization that he will not be rewarded solely on his domain expertise can come as a shock. –Whitney Johnson [_Disrupt Yourself: Putting the Power of_ Disruptive Innovation _to Work_](http://amzn.to/1kQajVX) (pg 5)

Whitney Johnson Disrupt Yourself: Putting the Power of Disruptive Innovation to Work (pg 5)

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When we make an acquisition, every employee has just three questions: (1) Do I have a job? (2) Who do I report to? And (3) How will I get paid. Until they get answers, nothing else matters.

Whitney Johnson quoting Betty Jane Hess of Arrow Electronics in Disrupt Yourself: Putting the Power of Disruptive Innovation to Work (pg 5)

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My film the Duelists was criticized for being too beautiful. One critic claimed complained about 'the over use of filters.' Actually, there were no filters used. The 'filters' were fifty-nine days of pissing rain.

--Ridley Scott, as quoted in Ken Robinson's The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything (pg 73)

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You’re an entertainer; whether you podcast or blog or write novels or sing songs, your career is contingent upon your ability to make your audience happy, not vice versa.

J Daniel Sawyer, Making Tracks: A Writer’s Guide to Audiobooks (And how to Produce Them)

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Technology in World History 7 volume set edited by W. Bernard Carlson

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Career Changing Introspection

Mindset by Carol Dweck

Disrupt Yourself: Putting the Power of Disruptive Innovation to Work by Whitney Johnson

How Will You Measure Your Life? by Clayton M. Christensen, James Allworth and Karen Dillon

The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything by Ken Robinson

Finding Your Element: How to Discover Your Talents and Passions and Transform Your Life by Ken Robinson

Out of Our Minds: Learning to be Creative by Ken Robinson

Epiphany: True Stories of Sudden Insight to Inspire, Encourage and Transform, Expanded Edition by Elise Ballard

Passages by Gail Sheehy

Influence: Science and Practice by Robert B. Cialdini

Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In by Roger Fisher, William L. Ury, and Bruce Patton

Getting Past No: Negotiating in Difficult Situations by William L. Ury

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"The cure for anything is saltwater: sweat, tears or the sea." -- Isak Dinesen

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This is what a home library should look like.