What's on a CTO's top book shelf?

Thanks to my friend and colleague, Mitchell Friedman, I have what I consider a top shelf top shelf at work.  The list of books includes:

 

• A. K. Dewdney, The Turing Omnibus
• Terrence W. Pratt & Marving V. Zelkowitz, Programming Languages – Design and Implementation (Third Edition)
• Edward A. Feigenbaum & Julian Feldman, Computers and Thought
• Alec Sharp & Patrick McDermott, Workflow Modeling
• Wil van der Aalst & Kees van Hee, Workflow Management – Models, Methods, and Systems
• Christopher Alexander, The Timeless Way of Building
• Christopher Alexander, et al., The Oregon Experiment
• Christopher Alexander, et al., A Pattern Language
• Harvard Business Review, Managing the Value Chain
• Tom Mochal & Jeff Mochal, Lessons in Project Management
• Claus Heinrich with Bob Betts, Adapt or Die – Transforming your Supply Chain into an Adaptive Business Network
• DiBona, Ockman & Stone, Open Sources Voices from the Open Source Revolution
• Eric S. Raymond, The Cathedral & The Bazaar
• Frank Rose, West of Eden – the end of innocence at Apple Computer
• David A. Schmaltz – The Blind Men and the Elephant
• Peter Schwartz, The Art of the Long View
• Eric Raymond, The New Hacker’s Dictionary
• Douglas R. Hofstadter & Daniel C. Dennett, The Mind’s I
• Douglas R. Hofstadter, Metamagical Themas: Questing for Essence of Mind and Pattern
• Douglas R. Hofstadter, Godel, Escher, Bach (actually, this is on my shelf by my bed…but it would look good here!)
• Christiane Fellbaum, WordNet – An Electronic Lexical Database
• Philip N. Johnson-Laird, The Computer and the Mind – An Introduction to Cognitive Science
• Douglas E. Comer & David L Stevens, Internetworking with TCP/IP – Volumes I, II, and III
• Edward Tufte, The Visual Display of Quantitative Information
• Edward Tufte, Envisioning Information
• Edward Tufte, Visual Explanations

 

My second shelf is not nearly as lively, consisting primarily of linux, java, algorithm and compiler books…

 

Feel free to suggest additional books that should be on my list…I may have them elsewhere!

 

Kipp