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Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
Douglas Hofstadter (inferred)
“the most influential thing that I read in my early 20s ... that was a big eye-opener”
“the most influential thing that I read in my early 20s was girlish ABBA that was about consciousness and that was a big eye-opener”— Guido van Rossum
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Dead Parrot Sketch
Monty Python (inferred)
“that's brilliant ... that's my favorite as well”
“you can always play me the parrots the dead parrot sketch oh that's brilliant yeah that's my favorite as well”— Guido van Rossum
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Conway's Game of Life
John Conway (inferred)
“someone pointed out to me that there was this thing called Conway's Game of Life ... it spoke to me and I remember implementing a version of that game”— Guido van Rossum
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Monty Python's Flying Circus
Monty Python
“as the announcer of Monty Python's Flying Circus used to say and now for something completely different”— Lex Fridman
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