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• Design Patterns by Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, and John Vlissides
• CODE Complete by Steve McConnell
• The Ruby Programming Language by David Flanagan and Yukihiro Matsumoto
• Programming Ruby by Dave Thomas
• Agile Web Development with Rails by Dave Thomas and David Heinemeier Hansson et. al.
• Practical Rails Social Networking Sites by Alan Bradburne
• The Rails Way by Obie Fernandez
• Beginning Ruby on Rails E-Commerce: From Novice to Professional by Christian Hellsten and Jarkko Laine
• Ruby Cookbook by Lucas Carlson and Leonard Richardson
• Rails Cookbook by Rob Orsini
• Ajax Patterns and Best Practices by Christian Gross
• PHP 5 Objects, Patterns, and Practice by Matt Zandstra
• World Changing: A User's Guide for the 21st Century by Alex Steffen, Al Gore, and Bruce Sterling
• The Little Green Handbook by Ron Nielsen
• The NEXT Sustainability Wave by Bob Willard
• Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution by Paul Hawken, Amory Lovins, and L. Hunter Lovins
• Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things by William McDonough and Michael Braungart
• The Ecological Engineer Volume One: KEEN Engineering by David R. Macaulay and Jason F. McLennan
• The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology by Ray Kurzweil
• Fantastic Voyage: Live Long Enough to Live Forever by Ray Kurzweil and Terry Grossman
• Radical Evolution: The Promise and Peril of Enhancing Our Minds, Our Bodies -- and What It Means to Be Human by Joel Garreau
• The GOD Delusion by Richard Dawkins
• The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
• iWoz: How I invented the personal computer, co-founded Apple, and had fun doing it by Steve Wozniak
• Bioinformatics: Sequence and Genome Analysis by David W. Mount
• Discovering Genomics, Proteomics, and Bioinformatics by Malcolm Campbell et. al.
• Bioinformatics for Dummies by Jean-Michel Claverie et. al.
• Developing Bioinformatics Computer Skills by Cynthia Gibas
• An Introduction to Bioinformatics Algorithms by Neil C. Jones and Pavel A. Pevzner
• Bioinformatics by Andreas D. Baxevanis
• Introduction to Macromolecular Crystallography by Alexander McPherson
• Cellular Computing by Martyn Amos, Molecular Computing by Tanya Sienko
• Genome by Matt Ridley
• DNA: The Secret of Life by James D. Watson and Andrew Berry
• The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA by James D. Watson

"As I exhaled I became terribly afraid, my heart very rapid and strong, palms sweating. A terrible sense of dread and doom filled me -- I knew what was happening, I knew I couldn't stop it, but it was so devastating; I was being destroyed -- all that was familiar, all reference points, all identity -- all viciously shattered in a few seconds. I couldn't even mourn the loss -- there was no one left to do the mourning. Up, up, out, out, eyes closed, I am at the speed of light, expanding, expanding, expanding, faster and faster until I have become so large that I no longer exist -- my speed is so great that everything has come to a stop -- here I gaze upon the entire universe." -Alexander "Sasha" Shulgin Ph.D

"Well, birthdays are merely symbolic of how another year's gone by and how little we've grown. No matter how desperate we are that someday a better self will emerge, with each flicker of the candles on the cake we know it's not to be. That for the rest of our sad, wretched, pathetic lives, this is who we are to the bitter end. Inevitably, irrevocably. Happy birthday? No such thing." -Jerry Seinfeld

"Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills, and listening to repetitive electronic music." -Kristian Wilson of Nintendo

"Voilá! In view, a humble vaudevillian veteran, cast vicariously as both victim and villain by the vicissitudes of fate. This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is a vestige of the vox populi, now vacant, vanished. However, this valorous visitation of a bygone vexation stands vivified, and has vowed to vanquish these venal and virulent vermin vanguarding vice and vouchsafing the violently vicious and voracious violation of volition. The only verdict is vengeance; a vendetta held as a votive, not in vain, for the value and veracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous. Verily, this vichyssoise of verbiage veers most verbose vis-a-vis an introduction, so let me simply add that it's my very good honor to meet you and you may call me V." -V's introduction to Evey in V for Vendetta

"I am the Architect. I created the matrix. I’ve been waiting for you. You have many questions, and although the process has altered your consciousness, you remain irrevocably human. Ergo, some of my answers you will understand, and some of them you will not. Concordantly, while your first question may be the most pertinent, you may or may not realize it is also irrelevant." -The Architect to Neo in The Matrix Reloaded