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March 27, 2006

Reading About It On The Internet

From the Malaysian Star:

WHAT books do the great minds of our time read? Do they go for big thick science books, or novels, like the rest of us?

If we go by what Dr Vinton Cerf reads, then it's a mixture of literature as well as science books.

Fondly known as the father of the Internet, Cerf is Vice-President and Chief Internet Evangelist at Google Inc and chairman of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) board...

There are about 30 books on his desk, which he has read in recent weeks. Having just finished two books on Google, he is currently reading The Beginner's Guide to Winning the Nobel Prize (Peter Doherty); A Certain Justice (P.D. James); Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking (Malcolm Gladwell); Barry Trotter (Michael Gerber); A Short History of Nearly Everything (Bill Bryson); Chaos: Making a New Science (James Gleick) and Shadow of the Giant (Orson Scott Card), among other titles.

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Comments

How could the Malaysian Star make such an egregious error? How??

Posted by: Aaron Datesman at March 27, 2006 05:21 PM

is the Gladwell book a GWB bio?

And, how come no books about penguins with umbrellas and spats?

Posted by: Jonathan Versen at March 28, 2006 02:46 AM

In between doing constant drugs and dating Kate Moss, Peter Doherty has contemplated how to win a Nobel prize? Jesus. I can barely make it to the gym.

Posted by: Elayne at March 28, 2006 09:08 AM