[ivanmaeder]

Great question, I will come back to see what ideas people have. Thanks for the Turing book suggestion too.

I have read lots of non-fiction books about programmers and engineers that have been very inspiring, they're just not technical: "Masters of Doom", "Blood, Sweat, and Pixels", "Coders at Work", "The Idea Factory", "The Soul of a New Machine", "Dealers of Lightning"...

[is_true]

I read Masters of Doom and I really like it, I don't know why but after a couple of pages I wanna rush to the computer and write some code.

Sometimes Silicon Valley (tv) generates the same reaction on me.

[markus_zhang]

I'm on the same boat. Although I probably won't write games professionally, considering the golden time of game development was long gone, Romero and Carmack's early stories inspire me a lot.

I especially love the early story of ID, before Romero left. That was probably one if the greatest teams a technical person can be.

[is_true]

There are plenty of "cool" things to do today, and every few months as technology evolves a new number of "cool" things become doable. The golden age of technology is gonna be always one step ahead

[aristofun]

Thanks for non technical books