But in all seriousness, it's not which book you read that's important, but becoming aware of the material that is covered within them. You can learn about the material covered in SICP by other means, but that doesn't make SICP no longer a convenient path to finding and learning this material. Now why don't you get back to scrubbing that toilet, you mental midget. And go back to /g/. Seriously why are you addressing us with you people? It's like you're walking into a bar and challenging everyone there to a fight or something. It's freaken weird dude.