Sergey Brin is one of the co-founders of Google.
In a 2000 interview with the Academy of Achievement nonprofit, Brin said there were two books that inspired him to dedicate his career to technology.
'Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!' by Richard P. Feynman
"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character is an edited collection of reminiscences by the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman. The book, released in 1985, covers a variety of instances in Feynman's life. Wikipedia
'Snow Crash' by Neal Stephenson
Snow Crash is Neal Stephenson's third novel, published in 1992. Like many of Stephenson's other novels it covers history, linguistics, anthropology, archaeology, religion, computer science, politics, cryptography, memetics and philosophy. Wikipedia
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