What in "Structure and Interpretations of Computer Programs" inspire you the most?

Question

I heard more than once from coworkers and people online that the book Structure and Interpretations of Computer Programs has had a profound impact on them.

I read this book lightly on a few trips but haven't gotten the "eureka" moment from it just yet. What (topic, concepts, etc.) specifically in this book open up your eyes to something or enlightens you? In what way has it made you see things differently than before (if at all)?

Obviously you should have already read this book to comment on this thread.

Answer 1

Never heard of it. It looks like a CS101 textbook, but I think you'd have to be young enough to have been excited about the Transformers movie comming out in order to have used it.

I would say that CS101 was definitely a formative course for me, and about anyone who went through it and stuck with CS. But back in the 80's when I went through it, we had only invented about 6 data structures. ;-)