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* ''Hardware and Software''

* ''Epilogue''

The themes of the book espouse many [[Hacker (programmer subculture)|hacker]] ideals<ref>{{cite web|last1=Raymond|first1=Eric S.|title=The Jargon File: Bibliography|url=http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/pt03.html#bibliography|accessdate=3 August 2016}}</ref>—managers should leave programmers to their work; code should be small, elegant, and maintainable; corporate wisdom is more often than not an [[oxymoron]]; and so on.

Geoffrey James wrote two other books on this theme, ''[[The Zen of Programming]]'' in 1988 and ''[[Computer Parables: Enlightenment in the Information Age]]'' in 1989.