影响Tim O'reilly的几本书

Tim O’reilly 在自己的博客文章《Books That Have Shaped How I Think》中列举了对自己影响深远的一些书籍。

以下皆为文史哲方面的：

• The Golden Warrior, Hope Muntz's classic novel of Harold, last of the Saxon kings
• The Meaning of Culture
• The Way of Life According to Lao Tzu (Tao Te Ching), translated by Witter Bynner. (其实就是道德经)
• The Palm at the End of the Mind, by Wallace Stevens.
• Rasselas, by Samuel Johnson.
• Colin Wilson's The Outsider
• An Introduction to Realistic Philosophy, by John Wild.
• Science and Sanity, by Alfred Korzybski.
• Rissa Kerguelen, by F.M. Busby
• Islandia, by Austin Tappan Wright.
• The Lymond Chronicles, by Dorothy Dunnett.
• Dune, by Frank Herbert.
• The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, by Thomas Kuhn.

下面才是技术、商业方面的：

• Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace, by Larry Lessig.
• The Unix Programming Environment, by Brian Kernighan and Rob Pike.
• On Writing Well, by William Zinsser.
• The Innovator's Dilemma, by Clayton Christensen.
• Built to Last, by James Collins and Jerry Porras.(就是《基业长青》)
• Positioning, and The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing by Al Ries and Jack Trout.

分析一下可以看出，文史哲方面的“闲书”对他的影响最为重大，其中甚至包括一些诗集。经典的哲学与诗应该是近亲，二者都致力于发掘普通人生之中的通用“规则”，以高度概括的方式让我们进一步认识自我、他人、身边的世界。

看到他看的这些书，可以让我们更深入了解他这个人。一个人的成功，是因为他的思维方式、价值体系、世界观，这些体现出来的外在模式，即使模仿了，成功的几率又有多大呢？

再多问一句：什么叫成功？