Ask HN: Which essays/works would you recommend reading?

[_dt47]

Are there any imprescindible pieces of work that i should read as a programmer?

Bonus points for link to pdf/doc.

[jcr]

"On Computable Numbers with an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem" (1936)

http://draperg.cis.byuh.edu/archive/winter2014/cs320/Turing_...

"Computing Machinery and Intelligence" (1950)

http://www.csee.umbc.edu/courses/471/papers/turing.pdf

"Recursive Functions of Symbolic Expressions and Their Computation by Machine" (1960)

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~crary/819-f09/McCarthy60.pdf

"Reflections on Trusting Trust" (1984)

https://www.ece.cmu.edu/~ganger/712.fall02/papers/p761-thomp...