Every book Paul Graham mentioned on X (Twitter)

Jocko Willink covered this book in "Jocko Podcast" Ep. 10

"I didn’t understand the full impact of what these guys did at Okinawa fighting the Japanese. That had a big impact on me." - Howard Stern

One of J.K. Rowling's answers to "If you could bring only three books to a desert island, which would you pack?"

"How can I forget the moment when [I] learned that to be amusing was not to be frivolous and that language—always the language—was the magic key as much to prose as to poetry?" - Christopher Hitchens

"Excellent!" - Sam Altman

Patrick Collison labeled this book "substantially above average."

"Really is great." - Sam Altman

Matt Ridley recommended this book in a "What Should I Read Next" interview.

"Biographies of Ramanujan and Hardy." - Donald Knuth

Balaji Srinivasan recommended this book in "The Almanack of Balaji Srinivasan."

Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website.

"[There are] engineers who [dismiss] all these things that can’t be fit into an algorithm, or that don’t have some kind of mathematical rigor underpinning them, [this book] is about that question." - Drew Houston

"Inspired my cultivation of dynamic quality as a way of life." - Josh Waitzkin

Bryan Johnson recommended this book on Twitter.

"One of the few novels I’ve ever read twice." - Ev Williams

"Didn’t get it first time." - Austen Allred

"To learn of our kinship with all other life on Earth." - Neil deGrasse Tyson

Darren Aronofsky mentioned this book on "The Tim Ferriss Show" podcast.

"[Changed] science and [reached] the public." - Matt Ridley

"I was thinking of [this book] when Harry saved Cedric’s body." - J.K. Rowling

Stewart Brand recommended this book on his "Selected Books for the Manual for Civilization" blog post.

"Best story ever." - Elon Musk

Patrick Collison labeled this book "substantially above average."

Brad Delong recommended this book in his website.

Michael S. Malone said the first time he sat down with Steve Jobs, Steve immediately asked him if he had read this book. Michael thinks Steve was assimilating into this personality, this notion that he found in this book.

"Explores the question of whether science and technology make consistent forward progress or whether progress comes in bursts related to other social forces." - Mark Zuckerberg

"A fantastic book." - Stanislav Grof

David Deutsch recommended this book in his book "The Fabric of Reality."

Brad Delong recommended this book in his website.

"[One of the] biographies of people who have 'built skyscrapers' (my term)." - Peter Attia

"An astonishing literary achievement, and it was about the greatest scientific discovery of the 20th century." - Matt Ridley

"A remarkable book." - Daniel Pink

"About Bill Bradley." - Jim Collins

Ryan Petersen mentioned this book on Twitter.

Barack Obama's "2016 Summer Reading List."

One of Elon Musk's favorite books about space.

John Carmack mentioned this book on Twitter.

"Probably the [science fiction book] I read the most when I was younger." - Bill Gates

"I’m a big fan of [the author]." - Christopher Sommer

Ryan Shea recommended this book on his website.

Charlie Munger recommended this book in the "Poor Charlie's Almanack" book.

"Cast as a letter to his son. It’s not some deep ruminations and things. It’s about how you make your way through this world." - Walter Isaacson

"[The author] didn’t mean to write his autobiography. He wanted to write a note to his family about what he’d learned in his experiments." - Cory Booker

"One of the very first books that I read." - Brandon Stanton

"[This] is I think the most compelling of books." - Vince Vaughn

"Really good." - Elon Musk

"You really get a feeling for what it took to write and sell software in the software revolution." - Charlie Munger

"Makes a fair assessment of Gates back when he was starting out." - Carlos Slim

"By far the best book I've read on the sector." - Patrick Collison

"About the Venture Capital industry." - Trung Phan

"Excellent." - Barry Ritholtz