Alan Kay's Reading List

1.
The Children's Machine: Rethinking School In The Age Of The Computer
The Children's Machine: Rethinking School In The Age Of The Computer 4.12 avg rating — 118 ratings
2.
The Society of Mind
The Society of Mind 4.04 avg rating — 3,332 ratings
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Soft Architecture Machines
Soft Architecture Machines 3.71 avg rating — 7 ratings
4.
Computation: Finite and Infinite Machines
Computation: Finite and Infinite Machines 4.51 avg rating — 47 ratings
5.
The Architecture Machine: Toward a More Human Environment
The Architecture Machine: Toward a More Human Environment 4.12 avg rating — 17 ratings
6.
LISP 1.5 Programmer's Manual
LISP 1.5 Programmer's Manual 4.46 avg rating — 37 ratings
7.
Building Large Knowledge-Based Systems: Representation and Inference in the Cyc Project
Building Large Knowledge-Based Systems: Representation and Inference in the Cyc Project 4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings
8.
Made in America: Regaining the Productive Edge
Made in America: Regaining the Productive Edge really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 14 ratings
9.
Economics Explained
Economics Explained 3.73 avg rating — 427 ratings
10.
Head to Head: The Coming Economic Battle Among Japan, Europe & America
Head to Head: The Coming Economic Battle Among Japan, Europe & America 3.25 avg rating — 80 ratings
11.
The Zero-sum Society: Distribution & the Possibilities for Economic Change
The Zero-sum Society: Distribution & the Possibilities for Economic Change 3.57 avg rating — 88 ratings
12.
An Aristocracy of Everyone
An Aristocracy of Everyone 3.38 avg rating — 24 ratings
13.
The Age of Reason
The Age of Reason 4.12 avg rating — 9,300 ratings
14.
Rights of Man
Rights of Man 4.02 avg rating — 10,354 ratings
15.
Common Sense
Common Sense really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 38,569 ratings
16.
The Anti-Federalist Papers and the Constitutional Convention Debates
The Anti-Federalist Papers and the Constitutional Convention Debates 4.09 avg rating — 3,659 ratings
17.
The Federalist Papers
The Federalist Papers 4.10 avg rating — 41,559 ratings
18.
The Americans, Vol. 1: The Colonial Experience
The Americans, Vol. 1: The Colonial Experience 4.01 avg rating — 1,073 ratings
19.
An American Primer
An American Primer 3.90 avg rating — 41 ratings
20.
The Fractal Geometry of Nature
The Fractal Geometry of Nature 4.23 avg rating — 1,276 ratings
21.
The Double Helix
The Double Helix 3.84 avg rating — 19,755 ratings
22.
From Quarks to the Cosmos: Tools of Discovery (Scientific American Library Series, Vol. 28)
From Quarks to the Cosmos: Tools of Discovery (Scientific American Library Series, Vol. 28) 4.20 avg rating — 54 ratings
23.
The God Particle: If the Universe Is the Answer, What Is the Question?
The God Particle: If the Universe Is the Answer, What Is the Question? 4.15 avg rating — 4,110 ratings
24.
QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter
QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter 4.27 avg rating — 19,187 ratings
25.
The Character of Physical Law
The Character of Physical Law 4.30 avg rating — 7,713 ratings
26.
Neuroethology: An Introduction to the Neurophysiological Fundamentals of Behavior
Neuroethology: An Introduction to the Neurophysiological Fundamentals of Behavior 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
27.
Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science
Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science 4.05 avg rating — 10,817 ratings
28.
The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence
The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence 4.19 avg rating — 21,190 ratings
29.
The Selfish Gene
The Selfish Gene 4.16 avg rating — 189,066 ratings
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The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design
The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design 4.09 avg rating — 41,145 ratings
31.
Engines of Creation: The Coming Era of Nanotechnology
Engines of Creation: The Coming Era of Nanotechnology 4.18 avg rating — 929 ratings
32.
Relativity Visualized: The Gold Nugget of Relativity Books
Relativity Visualized: The Gold Nugget of Relativity Books 4.40 avg rating — 200 ratings
33.
The Animal in its World: Explorations of an Ethologist 1932-72, Vol 2, Laboratory Experiments & General Papers
The Animal in its World: Explorations of an Ethologist 1932-72, Vol 2, Laboratory Experiments & General Papers really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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The Ring of Truth: An Inquiry into How We Know What We Know
The Ring of Truth: An Inquiry into How We Know What We Know really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 40 ratings
35.
The Machinery of Life
The Machinery of Life 4.42 avg rating — 715 ratings
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Envisioning Information
Envisioning Information 4.23 avg rating — 7,914 ratings
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The Visual Display of Quantitative Information
The Visual Display of Quantitative Information 4.39 avg rating — 8,577 ratings
38.
The Living Brain
The Living Brain 4.07 avg rating — 28 ratings
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Vehicles: Experiments in Synthetic Psychology
Vehicles: Experiments in Synthetic Psychology 4.40 avg rating — 505 ratings
40.
Gossamer Odyssey: The Triumph of Human-Powered Flight
Gossamer Odyssey: The Triumph of Human-Powered Flight 4.08 avg rating — 24 ratings
41.
Notes on the Synthesis of Form
Notes on the Synthesis of Form 4.06 avg rating — 742 ratings
42.
Visual Thinking
Visual Thinking 4.07 avg rating — 680 ratings
43.
Eye and Brain: The Psychology of Seeing
Eye and Brain: The Psychology of Seeing 3.97 avg rating — 222 ratings
44.
Art and Illusion: A Study in the Psychology of Pictorial Representation
Art and Illusion: A Study in the Psychology of Pictorial Representation 4.04 avg rating — 6,024 ratings
45.
What Is a Masterpiece?
What Is a Masterpiece? 3.85 avg rating — 41 ratings
46.
Civilisation
Civilisation 4.25 avg rating — 1,824 ratings
47.
Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice
Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice 4.21 avg rating — 48,742 ratings
48.
Tao Te Ching
Tao Te Ching
by: Lao Tzu
4.29 avg rating — 176,957 ratings
49.
What I Believe: 13 Eminent People of Our Time Argue for Their Philosophy of Life
What I Believe: 13 Eminent People of Our Time Argue for Their Philosophy of Life 3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Science Is Not Enough: Reflections on the Present and Future
Science Is Not Enough: Reflections on the Present and Future 4.07 avg rating — 14 ratings
51.
Science and Sanity: An Introduction to Non-Aristotelian Systems and General Semantics
Science and Sanity: An Introduction to Non-Aristotelian Systems and General Semantics 4.40 avg rating — 378 ratings
52.
The Human Condition
The Human Condition 4.20 avg rating — 9,181 ratings
53.
Science as Salvation: A Modern Myth and its Meaning
Science as Salvation: A Modern Myth and its Meaning 4.11 avg rating — 65 ratings
54.
Wisdom, Information and Wonder: What is Knowledge For?
Wisdom, Information and Wonder: What is Knowledge For? 3.38 avg rating — 37 ratings
55.
The Ascent of Man
The Ascent of Man 4.21 avg rating — 6,285 ratings
56.
The Passion of the Western Mind: Understanding the Ideas that Have Shaped Our World View
The Passion of the Western Mind: Understanding the Ideas that Have Shaped Our World View 4.24 avg rating — 2,039 ratings
57.
Human Knowledge: Its Scope and Limits
Human Knowledge: Its Scope and Limits 4.09 avg rating — 237 ratings
58.
Sceptical Essays
Sceptical Essays 4.12 avg rating — 1,412 ratings
59.
A History of Western Philosophy
A History of Western Philosophy 4.13 avg rating — 40,910 ratings
60.
Timaeus
Timaeus
by: Plato
3.85 avg rating — 3,222 ratings
61.
The Republic
The Republic
by: Plato
3.96 avg rating — 220,217 ratings
62.
Archetypes: A Natural History of the Self
Archetypes: A Natural History of the Self 4.14 avg rating — 28 ratings
63.
Modern Woman in Search of Soul: A Jungian Guide to the Visible & Invisible Worlds
Modern Woman in Search of Soul: A Jungian Guide to the Visible & Invisible Worlds 4.03 avg rating — 36 ratings
64.
Man and His Symbols
Man and His Symbols
by: C.G. Jung
4.19 avg rating — 32,162 ratings
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Maps of the Mind: Charts and Concepts of the Mind and its Labyrinths
Maps of the Mind: Charts and Concepts of the Mind and its Labyrinths 4.25 avg rating — 129 ratings
66.
New World New Mind
New World New Mind 4.16 avg rating — 103 ratings
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Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience 4.11 avg rating — 86,239 ratings
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Beyond Boredom and Anxiety: Experiencing Flow in Work and Play
Beyond Boredom and Anxiety: Experiencing Flow in Work and Play 3.97 avg rating — 106 ratings
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The Interpretation of Cultures
The Interpretation of Cultures 4.11 avg rating — 3,827 ratings
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The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind
The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind 4.26 avg rating — 5,834 ratings
71.
The Psychology of Literacy
The Psychology of Literacy really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 25 ratings
72.
Language and Species
Language and Species 4.07 avg rating — 76 ratings
73.
The Masks of God, Volume 1: Primitive Mythology
The Masks of God, Volume 1: Primitive Mythology 4.27 avg rating — 4,288 ratings
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Myths to Live By
Myths to Live By 4.16 avg rating — 7,035 ratings
75.
Mindstorms: Children, Computers, and Powerful Ideas
Mindstorms: Children, Computers, and Powerful Ideas 4.31 avg rating — 843 ratings
76.
The Ghost in the Machine
The Ghost in the Machine 4.03 avg rating — 659 ratings
77.
The Act of Creation
The Act of Creation 4.25 avg rating — 524 ratings
78.
Democracy and Education/Freedom and Culture
Democracy and Education/Freedom and Culture 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
79.
The Secret of Childhood
The Secret of Childhood 4.17 avg rating — 1,491 ratings
80.
The School and Society/The Child and the Curriculum
The School and Society/The Child and the Curriculum 3.74 avg rating — 602 ratings
81.
Nurtured by Love: The Classic Approach to Talent Education
Nurtured by Love: The Classic Approach to Talent Education 4.10 avg rating — 1,333 ratings
82.
The Inner Game of Tennis: The Classic Guide to the Mental Side of Peak Performance
The Inner Game of Tennis: The Classic Guide to the Mental Side of Peak Performance 4.19 avg rating — 25,745 ratings
83.
Six Thinking Hats
Six Thinking Hats 3.71 avg rating — 13,381 ratings
84.
Lateral Thinking
Lateral Thinking 3.76 avg rating — 4,669 ratings
85.
Essays into Literacy: Selected Papers and Some Afterthoughts
Essays into Literacy: Selected Papers and Some Afterthoughts 4.57 avg rating — 7 ratings
86.
Teach Your Own: The John Holt Book Of Homeschooling
Teach Your Own: The John Holt Book Of Homeschooling 4.09 avg rating — 1,713 ratings
87.
Instead of Education: Ways to Help People Do Things Better
Instead of Education: Ways to Help People Do Things Better 4.08 avg rating — 552 ratings
88.
The Relevance of Education
The Relevance of Education 3.73 avg rating — 15 ratings
89.
Toward a Theory of Instruction
Toward a Theory of Instruction 4.20 avg rating — 87 ratings
90.
The Psychology of Art
The Psychology of Art 4.18 avg rating — 114 ratings
91.
Mind in Society: The Development of Higher Psychological Processes
Mind in Society: The Development of Higher Psychological Processes 4.18 avg rating — 1,113 ratings
92.
Thought and Language
Thought and Language 4.23 avg rating — 933 ratings
93.
To Understand Is to Invent
To Understand Is to Invent 3.85 avg rating — 27 ratings
94.
The Psychology of the Child
The Psychology of the Child 3.87 avg rating — 1,022 ratings
95.
Conscientious Objections: Stirring Up Trouble About Language, Technology and Education
Conscientious Objections: Stirring Up Trouble About Language, Technology and Education 4.14 avg rating — 346 ratings
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The Disappearance of Childhood
The Disappearance of Childhood 3.97 avg rating — 1,957 ratings
97.
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business 4.16 avg rating — 36,107 ratings
98.
Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Innovation and Entrepreneurship 4.08 avg rating — 10,937 ratings
99.
Technics and Civilization
Technics and Civilization 4.30 avg rating — 601 ratings
100.
Technics and Human Development (The Myth of the Machine, Vol 1)
Technics and Human Development (The Myth of the Machine, Vol 1) 4.23 avg rating — 320 ratings