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I love reading books, some of my favorites: "The C++ Programming Language", "The Design and Evolution of C++", "The C Programming Language", "Compiler's Principals Techniques and Tools", "Effective C++", "More Effective C++", "Effective STL", "Exceptional C++", "more Exceptional C++", "Programming Python" "Python in a Nutshell" (gotta love all the in a Nutshell Series), "Beautiful Code", "OpenGL SuperBible", "Modern Compiler Design", "Writing Compilers and Interpreters", "Programming Principals and Practice using C++", "Advanced Programming in the UNIX enviorment", "Programming in Objective-C 2.0", ... and the list can go on forever.

Heroes include Computer Scientist's, and Programmers like
Bjarne Stroustrup, Dennis Ritchie, Brian Kernighan, John Carmack, etc.
A Quote from the C++ Master
"Many C++ design decisions have their roots in my dislike for forcing people to do things in some paticular way. In history, some of the worst disasters have been caused by idealists trying to force people into "doing what is good for them". Such idealism not only leads to suffering among its innocent victims, but also delusion and corruption of the idealists applying the force. I also find idealists prone to ignore experience and experiment that inconveniently clashes with dogma or theory. Where ideals clash and sometimes even when pundits seem to agree, I perfer to provide support that gives the programmer a choice"
- Bjarne Strostrup "The Design and Evolution of C++" Section 1.3