I have re-watched Alan Kay & Joe Armstrong interview and now I have 50 more books to read btw turns out Alan Kay and Douglas Adams were friends

I only count 13? Which ones did you otherwise found? Books/works mentioned in the talk: 1. The Sciences of the Artificial – Herbert Simon (Kay opens by noting almost no one in the audience has read it, despite it being a Nobel laureate's work) 2. Sketchpad thesis (Ivan Sutherland's PhD thesis) – not a published book, but Kay treats it as a foundational document, calling it possibly the greatest PhD thesis in the field 3. Computation: Finite and Infinite Machines – Marvin Minsky (Kay calls it one of his top 10 technical books of the 20th century) 4. Within that Minsky book, Kay highlights "Programs with Common Sense", an early paper by John McCarthy 5. A paper called "Situations, Actions, and Causal Laws" – also John McCarthy 6. McCarthy's 1959 Lisp paper 7. "Perilous Wisdom for Perilous Times" and The Art of Worldly Wisdom – Baltasar Gracián (17th-century aphorisms) 8. How to Tell Lies for Fun and Profit – mentioned as a favorite of Kay's wife's writing-craft books 9. Amusing Ourselves to Death and The Disappearance of Childhood – Neil Postman 10. The Act of Creation – Arthur Koestler (on the emotional responses to jokes, science, and art — "haha," "aha," "ah") 11. Novum Organum (referred to in English as roughly "the new organization of science," 1620) – Francis Bacon, discussed via his "Four Idols" 12. Last Chance to See – Douglas Adams, mentioned in the Q&A portion about Adams's writing and friendship with Kay

sorry, you are correct, the 50 is more of the over-selling. I tried to say that the reading list has dramatically increased for me.