William Poundstone

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1. William Poundstone

   Author of Prisoner's Dilemma, How Would You Move Mount Fuji? Microsoft's Cult of the Puzzle - How the World's Smartest Company Selects the Most Creati, Labyrinths of Reason: Paradox, Puzzles, and the Frailty of Knowledge

2. Carl Sagan

   Author of Cosmos, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark, Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors

3. David Feldman

   Author of Why Do Clocks Run Clockwise?, Imponderables, Why Do Dogs Have Wet Noses? and Other Imponderables of Everyday Life

4. Cecil Adams

   Author of The Straight Dope, More of the Straight Dope, Straight Dope Tells All

5. Douglas Hofstadter

   Author of Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid, The Mind's I: Fantasies and Reflections on Self and Soul, Metamagical Themas: Questing For The Essence Of Mind And Pattern

6. Berkeley Breathed

   Author of Penguin Dreams and Stranger Things, Night of the Mary Kay Commandos, Toons for Our Times

7. Rudy Rucker

   Author of Infinity and the Mind, The Fourth Dimension: A Guided Tour of the Higher Universes, Mind Tools: The Five Levels of Mathematical Reality

8. John Allen Paulos

   Author of Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences, A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper, Beyond Numeracy

9. Raymond M. Smullyan

   Author of To Mock a Mockingbird, Forever Undecided: A Puzzle Guide to Godel, This Book Needs No Title: A Budget of Living Paradoxes (Touchstone Books)

10. Steve McConnell

    Author of Code Complete, Rapid Development: Taming Wild Software Schedules, Software Project Survival Guide

11. John L. Casti

    Author of Paradigms Lost, Complexification, Searching for Certainty: What Scientists Can Know About the Future

12. Nassim Nicholas Taleb

    Author of The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable, Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets, Dynamic Hedging: Managing Vanilla and Exotic Options (Wiley Finance)

13. Jan Brunvand

    Author of Curses! Broiled Again!: The Hottest Urban Legends Going, The Choking Doberman: And Other Urban Legends, The Baby Train and Other Lusty Urban Legends

14. Daniel C. Dennett

    Author of Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life, Brainstorms: Philosophical Essays on Mind and Psychology

15. John Holland

    Author of Hidden Order: How Adaptation Builds Complexity (Helix Books), Emergence: From Chaos to Order (Helix Books)

16. Heinz R. Pagels

    Author of The Cosmic Code: Quantum Physics As the Language of Nature, The Dreams of Reason: The Computer and the Rise of the Sciences of Complexity

17. John D. Barrow

    Author of PI in the Sky: Counting, Thinking, and Being, 100 Essential Things You Didn't Know You Didn't Know, The World Within the World

18. Joel Spolsky

    Author of Joel on Software: And on Diverse and Occasionally Related Matters That Will Prove of Interest to Software Developers, Designers, and Managers, and to Those Who, Whether by Good Fortune or Ill Luck, Work with Them in Some Capacity, The Best Software Writing

19. Tom DeMarco

    Author of Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams, Slack: Getting Past Burnout, Busywork, and the Myth of Total Efficiency

20. Michael Lewis

    Author of Liar's Poker: Rising Through the Wreckage on Wall Street, The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine, Panic: The Story of Modern Financial Insanity