Hackers and Painters, Big Ideas from the Computer Age By Paul Graham
ISBN: 0596006624 A collection of essays by a noted CommonLisp advocate and painter PaulGraham, published in May of 2004.
Table of Contents: http://www.paulgraham.com/hptoc.html
Many, but not all, of the essays are freely available on his Web site: http://www.paulgraham.com/articles.html
- "I've found that the best sources of ideas are not the other fields that have the word 'computer' in their names, but the other fields inhabited by makers. Painting has been a much richer source of ideas than the theory of computation."