Below are lists of quotes, technical books, non-fiction books, literary books, music albums, music videos and movies that I have really enjoyed.
Sociology of Change
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.
- Margaret Mead
A movement is pioneered by men of words, materialized by fanatics and consolidated by men of action.
- Eric Hoffer
The future is already here - it’s just unevenly distributed.
- William Gibson
Culture eats strategy for breakfast.
- Peter Drucker
Time and Action
The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
- Alan Kay
Plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
The further back in history you look, the more general your takeaways should be.
- Morgan Housel
Motives like to push us from the past; values try to draw us into the future.
- George A. Miller
Action expresses priorities.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Time and Ideas
There is nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come.
- Victor Hugo
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
- Arthur C. Clarke
In science, you try to discover what others too will eventually discover. In arts, you try to discover what others will never be able to discover.
- George Janelidze
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Psychology of Uncertainty
To endure uncertainty is difficult, but so are most of the other virtues.
- Bertrand Russell
Most people prefer the certainty of misery to the misery of uncertainty.
- Virginia Satir
We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand.
- Eric Hoffer
The slenderest knowledge that may be obtained of the highest things is more desirable than the most certain knowledge obtained of lesser things.
- Thomas Aquinas
Strength and Survival
He who has a Why to live for can bear almost any How.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
That which does not kill us makes us stronger.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
A gem stone is not polished without friction, nor is a man without adversities.
- Seneca
Slowness and Success
The nobler and more perfect a thing is, the later and slower it is in arriving at maturity.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
It takes 20 years to become an overnight success.
- Eddie Cantor
Estimation of Success
Most people overestimate what they can do in one year and underestimate what they can do in ten years.
- Bill Gates
We tend to overestimate the effect of a technology in the short run and underestimate the effect in the long run.
- Roy Amara
Wonder and Restlessness
When I have clarified and exhausted a subject, then I turn away from it, in order to go into darkness again; the never-satisfied man is so strange - if he has completed a structure then it is not in order to dwell in it peacefully, but in order to begin another.
- Karl Friedrich Gauss
Pleasure to me is wonder—the unexplored, the unexpected, the thing that is hidden and the changeless thing that lurks behind superficial mutability. To trace the remote in the immediate; the eternal in the ephemeral; the past in the present; the infinite in the finite; these are to me the springs of delight and beauty.
- H. P. Lovecraft
Spiritual Leadership
If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.
- Antoine de Saint Exupéry
The tyrant dies and his rule is over; the martyr dies and his rule begins.
- Søren Kierkegaard
Leadership and Novelty
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
- George Bernard Shaw
Do not go where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Talent hits a target others miss. Genius hits a target no one sees.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.
- Arthur C. Clarke
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Naturality of Inconsistency
Do I contradict myself? Very well. Then I contradict myself. I am large. I contain multitudes.
- Walt Whitman
The secret of rulership is to combine a belief in one’s own infallibility with the power to learn from past mistakes.
- George Orwell
How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.
- Niels Bohr
Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead.
- Aldous Huxley
Naturality of Change
When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?
- John Maynard Keynes
I am not a thing - a noun. I seem to be a verb, an evolutionary process - an integral function of the universe.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Originality and Others
Ne garip, yalnız kalmaktan sıkılan insanlarla yalnız kalmaktan ben de çok sıkılıyorum.
- Emre Yılmaz
To arrive at the edge of the world's knowledge, seek out the most complex and sophisticated minds, put them in a room together, and have them ask each other the questions they are asking themselves.
- James Lee Byars
A flower is basically a weed with an advertising budget.
- Rory Sutherland
Perspective and Self-Narration
Yokuş çıkarken insanın gözü yoldadır; inerken ise manzarada. İşte bu yüzden görürüz günümüzü hep inerken.
- Emre Yılmaz
You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future.
- Steve Jobs
Maintenance of Youth
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.
- Pablo Picasso
My best work was done when I was most ignorant.
- Freeman Dyson
The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out.
- Dee Hock
I cannot tell you any spiritual truth that you don't know already. All I can do is remind you of what you have forgotten.
- Eckhart Tolle
Nature of Beginnings
All great ideas and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning.
- Albert Camus
A problem well put is half-solved.
- John Dewey
Never make a calculation until you know the answer.
- John Archibald Wheeler
It is startling to realize how much unbelief is necessary to make belief possible.
- Eric Hoffer
Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
- Abraham Lincoln
Learning and Zen
When the disciple is ready, the Master will appear.
- Mabel Collins
Unless it grows out of yourself no knowledge is really yours, it is only a borrowed plumage.
- D. T. Suzuki
The voyage of discovery is not seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.
- Marcel Proust
In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, in the expert’s mind there are few.
- Shunryu Suzuki
Topography of Knowledge
There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we don't know we don't know.
- Donald Rumsfeld
Knowledge has two extremes which meet; one is the pure natural ignorance of every man at birth, the other is the extreme reached by great minds who run through the whole range of human knowledge, only to find that they know nothing and come back to the same ignorance from which they set out, but it is a wise ignorance which knows itself.
- Blaise Pascal
Young man knows the rules and the old man knows the exceptions.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
Birds fly high in the air and survey broad vistas of mathematics out to the far horizon. They delight in concepts that unify our thinking and bring together diverse problems from different parts of the landscape. Frogs live in the mud below and see only the flowers that grow nearby. They delight in the details of particular objects, and they solve problems one at a time.
- Freeman Dyson
However far man may extend himself with his knowledge, however objective he may appear to himself, ultimately he reaps nothing but his own biography.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Teleology as Attraction
Love is metaphysical gravity.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Our destiny is density.
- John Smart
Truth and Oneness
The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposing ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
Every explicit duality is an implicit unity.
- Alan Watts
Truth is one; sages call it by various names.
- Rigveda
Naming and Understanding
Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things.
- Henri Poincare
For every psychological term in English there are four in Greek and forty in Sanskrit.
- Ananda Coomaraswamy
Facts and Theories
The ultimate goal would be to grasp that everything in the realm of fact is already theory.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I have found that the more facts people know, the less they theorize.
- John C. Adams
Encounter with the Extraordinary
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
- Carl Sagan
Highly artificial circumstances produce highly artificial results.
- Iain McGilchrist
Learning and Naiveness
Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals could believe them.
- George Orwell
A little learning is a dangerous thing.
- Alexander Pope
Alim olduklarını iddia edenler bir şeyler bildiklerini sanırlar; hiçbir şey bilmediklerini iddia edenler ise alim olduklarını sanırlar.
- Emre Yılmaz
İş dünyasında doğruyu söylemek aptallıktır, siyasette suç, sosyetede ise terbiyesizliktir.
- Emre Yılmaz
Dancing and Understanding
A religion is a philosophy that makes you dance.
- Andrew Brown
The dancing people are never wrong.
- The Bianca Story
Illusion of Individuality
We are like islands in the sea, separate on the surface but connected in the deep.
- William James
A person is a person through other persons.
- Desmond Tutu
Enlightenment for a wave is the moment the wave realizes that it is water.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
Relationality of Understanding
The aim of science is not things themselves, as the dogmatists in their simplicity imagine, but the relations among things; outside these relations there is no reality knowable.
- Henri Poincare
Good mathematicians see analogies. Great mathematicians see analogies between analogies.
- Stefan Banach
Unreasonableness of Understanding
The miracle of the appropriateness of the language of mathematics for the formulation of the laws of physics is a wonderful gift which we neither understand nor deserve.
- Eugene Paul Wigner
The hardest thing to understand is why we can understand anything at all.
- Albert Einstein
Intuition and Intellect
It is by logic that we prove, but by intuition that we discover.
- Henri Poincare.
The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant.
- Albert Einstein
Truth and Familiarity
Truths are illusions which we have forgotten are illusions.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
- John von Neumann
Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first, it is ridiculed. In the second, it is opposed. In the third, it is regarded as self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.
- Max Planck
Ralph Waldo Emerson once asked what we would do if the stars came out only once every thousand years. No one would sleep that night, of course. The world would create new religions overnight. We would be ecstatic, delirious, made rapturous by the glory of God. Instead, the stars come out every night and we watch television.
- Paul Hawken
Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them.
- Alfred North Whitehead
Difficulty of Self-Knowledge
We run fastest and farthest when we run from ourselves.
- Eric Hoffer
We are least aware of what our minds do best.
- Marvin Minsky
Difficulty of the Obvious
It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.
- Alfred North Whitehead
To see what's in front of one's nose requires a constant struggle.
- George Orwell
Fallacy of the Simple
No doubt, if our means of investigation became more and more penetrating, we should discover the simple beneath the complex, and then the complex from the simple, and then again the simple beneath the complex, and so on, without ever being able to predict what the last term will be.
- Henri Poincare
There are no beautiful surfaces without a terrible depth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
The universe is infinite in all directions, not only above us in the large but also below us in the small.
- Emil Wiechert
The universe is not only stranger than we imagine, it’s stranger than we can imagine.
- J. B. S. Haldane
I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which when you looked at it the right way did not become still more complicated.
- Poul Anderson
Language and Complexity
If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is.
- John von Neumann
The simplicities of natural laws arise through the complexities of the languages we use for their expression.
- Eugene Paul Wigner
Language is a device for taking the mystery out of reality.
- Aldous Huxley
Only that which has no history can be defined.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
The career of a young theoretical physicist consists of treating the harmonic oscillator in ever-increasing levels of abstraction.
- Sidney Coleman
Transcendence of Words
The way that can be followed is not the true way. The name that can be named is not the true name.
- Tao Te Ching
My propositions are elucidatory in this way: he who understands me finally recognizes them as senseless, when he has climbed out through them, on them, over them. (He must so to speak throw away the ladder, after he has climbed up on it.)
- Ludwig Wittgenstein
Thoughts die the moment they are embodied by words.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
Words are employed to convey ideas; but when the ideas are grasped, men forget the words.
- Chuang Tzu
Action and Knowledge
The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways; the point, however, is to change it.
- Karl Marx
Action follows conviction, not knowledge.
- Pierre Lecomte du Noüy
Spirit in Action
God does not remain petrified and dead; the very stones cry out and raise themselves to Spirit.
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
The Logos moves in us and through us, and ultimately it will move beyond us.
- David Skrbina
Mathematics and Teleology
The more I examine the universe and study the details of its architecture, the more evidence I find that the universe in some sense must have known that we were coming.
- Freeman Dyson
One cannot escape the feeling that these mathematical formulae have an independent existence and intelligence of their own, that they are wiser than we, wiser than their discoverers, that we get more out of them than was originally put into them.
- Heinrich Hertz
Existence and Terror
We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.
- H. P. Lovecraft
Man must at last wake up out of his millenary dream and discover his total solitude, his fundamental isolation. He must realize that, like a gypsy, he lives on the boundary of an alien world; a world that is deaf to his music, and as indifferent to his hopes as it is to his sufferings and his crimes.
- Jacques Monod
We are creatures rearranged, for biological existence continues only through the mutual slaughter and ingestion of its various species. I exist solely through the membership in this perfectly weird arrangement of beings that flourish by chewing each other up.
- Alan Watts
If you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Bear in mind that most of the following books were written for mathematically mature students and are therefore not suitable for a general audience.
Logic
· Mathematical Logic - Ebbinghaus, Flum, Thomas
Classical Algebra
· Abstract Algebra - Dummit, Foote
· A Course in Homological Algebra - Hilton, Stammbach
· Introduction to Lie Algebras and Representation Theory - Humphreys
· An Algebraic Introduction to K-Theory - Magurn
Categorical Algebra
· Handbook of Categorical Algebra - Borceux
· Protomodular, Homological and Semi-Abelian Categories - Borceux, Bourn
· Galois Theories - Borceux, Janelidze
· Sheaves in Geometry and Logic - Mac Lane, Moerdijk
Number Theory
· A Classical Introduction to Modern Number Theory - Ireland, Rosen
· Algebraic Number Fields - Janusz
Algebraic Topology
· An Introduction to Algebraic Topology - Vick
· Algebraic Topology from a Homotopical Viewpoint - Aguilar, Gitler, Prieto
Differential Geometry
· Calculus on Manifolds - Spivak
· From Calculus to Cohomology - Madsen, Tornehave
Analysis
· Introduction to Real Analysis - Bartle, Sherbert
· Complex Analysis - Stein, Shakarchi
· Introduction to Hilbert Spaces with Applications - Debnath, Mikusinski
Probability Theory
· Mathematical Statistics - Pestman
· Probability and Measure Theory - Ash, Doléans-Dade
· Elements of Information Theory - Cover, Thomas
Classical Mechanics
· Introduction to Analytical Dynamics - Woodhouse
· Semi-Riemannian Geometry with Applications to Relativity - O'Neill
Quantum Mechanics
· Picturing Quantum Processes - Coecke, Kissinger
· Quantum Theory for Mathematicians - Hall
Computer Science
· Introduction to the Theory of Computation - Sipser
· Quantum Computation and Quantum Information - Nielsen, Chuang
Micro Economics
· Microeconomic Theory - Mas-Colell, Whinston, Green
· A First Course in Optimization Theory - Sundaram
Financial Economics
· Intermediate Financial Theory - Danthine, Donaldson
· Pricing and Hedging of Derivative Securities - Nielsen
Corporate Finance
· Valuation - Titman, Martin
· The Theory of Corporate Finance - Tirole
I am especially a big fan of the starred items.
Tech (Big Picture)
· Future Shock (1970) - Alvin Toffler
· What Technology Wants (2011) - Kevin Kelly *
· The Global Brain (2007) - Peter Russell
· Novacene (2019) - James Lovelock
Tech (Criticism)
· Amusing Ourselves to Death (1985) - Neil Postman
· The Filter Bubble (2011) - Eli Pariser
· Weapons of Math Destruction (2016) - Cathy O'Neil
Tech (Strategy)
· New Rules for the New Economy (1998) - Kevin Kelly
· Zero to One (2014) - Peter A. Thiel, Blake Masters *
· Blockbuster (2014) - Anita Elberse
· AI Superpowers (2018) - Kai-Fu Lee
· The Metaverse (2022) - Matthew Ball
· Chip War (2022) - Chris Miller
Tech (Management)
· Peopleware (1987) - Tom DeMarco, Timothy Lister
· Rework (2010) - Jason Fried
· Creativity, Inc. (2014) - Ed Catmull
· The Hard Thing About Hard Things (2014) - Ben Horowitz *
· High Growth Handbook (2018) - Elad Gil
Business (Management)
· What They Don't Teach You at HBS (1984) - Mark H. McCormack
· Genç Bir İşadamına (1996) - Emre Yılmaz *
· Good to Great (2001) - Jim Collins
Business (Skills)
· The Nonverbal Advantage (2008) - Carol Kinsey Goman
· Everything is Negotiable (2008) - Gavin Kennedy
· Pitch Anything (2011) - Oren Klaff
Design
· Universal Principles of Design (2003) - W. Lidwell, K. Holden, J. Butler
· Evil by Design (2013) - Chris Nodder
· Hooked (2014) - Nir Eyal
Marketing
· The Culting of Brands (2005) - Douglas Atkin *
· Influence (2009) - Robert B. Cialdini
· Contagious (2013) - Jonah Berger
Psychology
· The Origins and History of Consciousness (1949) - Erich Neumann *
· Ghost in the Machine (1967) - Arthur Koestler
· Flow (1991) - Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
· Born For Love (2010) - Bruce D. Perry, Maia Szalavitz
· Drive (2011) - Daniel H. Pink
· Originals (2016) - Adam Grant *
· Transcend (2020) - Scott Barry Kaufman *
Politics
· The True Believer (1951) - Eric Hoffer *
· Ill Fares the Land (2010) - Tony Judt
Sociology
· The Age of Absurdity (2010) - Michael Foley
· Bobos in Paradise (2010) - David Brooks *
· Quiet (2012) - Susan Cain
· Sapiens (2014) - Yuval Noah Harari
Cognitive Science
· Grammatical Man (1982) - Jeremy Campbell
· Why Life Speeds Up as You Get Older (2004) - Douwe Draaisma
· The Brain That Changes Itself (2007) - Norman Doidge
· The Philosophical Baby (2009) - Alison Gopnik
· How to Create a Mind (2012) - Ray Kurzweil
· Subliminal (2012) - Leonard Mlodinow
· The Brain’s Way of Healing (2016) - Norman Doidge
· The Master and His Emissary (2019) - Iain McGilchrist *
Biology
· Microcosmos (1986) - Lynn Margulis, Dorion Sagan
· Signs of Meaning (1996) - Jesper Hoffmeyer
· Your Inner Fish (2008) - Neil Shubin
· Good Germs, Bad Germs (2008) - Jessica Snyder Sachs
· The Epigenetics Revolution (2011) - Nessa Carey
· The Gene (2016) - Siddhartha Mukherjee
· The Biology of Wonder (2016) - Andreas Weber
· The Demon in the Machine (2019) - Paul Davies
Complexity
· Critical Mass (2004) - Philip Ball
· Sync (2004) - Steven Strogatz
· The Origin of Wealth (2006) - Eric D. Beinhocker
· Weak Links (2006) - Peter Csermely
· Smart Swarm (2010) - Peter Miller
Physics
· The Character of Physical Law (1965) - Richard Feynman
· God and the New Physics (1984) - Paul Davies
· Impossibility (1998) - John D. Barrow
· A Different Universe (2005) - Robert B. Laughlin
· Time Reborn (2013) - Lee Smolin
· Trespassing on Einstein’s Lawn (2014) - Amanda Gefter *
Philosophy
· The Importance of Living (1937) - Lin Yutang
· The Passion of the Western Mind (1991) - Richard Tarnas *
· Wabi-Sabi (1994) - Leonard Koren
· A Brief History of Everything (1996) - Ken Wilber *
· Straw Dogs (2007) - John Gray
· Restoring the Soul of the World (2014) - David R. Fideler
· The Flip (2019) - Jeffrey J. Kripal
Philosophy of Science
· Science Set Free (2012) - Rupert Sheldrake
· Antifragile (2012) - Nassim Nicholas Taleb *
· Cosmic Apprentice (2013) - Dorion Sagan
Education
· Mastery (1991) - George Leonard
· The Last Lecture (2008) - Randy Pausch, Jeffrey Zaslow
· Why Don’t Students Like School? (2009) - Daniel T. Willingham
· Excellent Sheep (2014) - William Deresiewicz *
· Deep Work (2016) - Cal Newport
· Range (2019) - David Epstein
It is a shame but I literally do not read literature anymore. So you probably will not find any gems here.
Dystopian
· Brave New World (1932) - Aldous Huxley
· Animal Farm (1945) - George Orwell
Psychological
· When Nietzsche Wept (1992) - Irvin D. Yalom
· Veronika Decides to Die (1998) - Paulo Coelho
Philosophical
· Atlas Shrugged (1957) - Ayn Rand
· Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (1974) - Robert M. Pirsig
Existentialist
· Crime and Punishment (1866) - Fyodor Dostoevsky
· Waiting for Godot (1953) - Samuel Beckett
Biographies
· Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius (1990) - Ray Monk
· Tuxedo Park (2002) - Jennet Conant
Business Narratives
· Barbarians at the Gate (1989) - Bryan Burrough, John Helyar
· When Genius Failed (2000) - Roger Lowenstein
I am especially a big fan of the starred items.
Soft
· Older (1996) - George Michael
· The Boy with the Arab Strap (1998) - Belle & Sebastian
· Riot on an Empty Street (2004) - Kings of Convenience *
· Nolita (2004) - Keren Ann
· Cihan (2009) - Birsen Tezer
· Philharmonics (2010) - Agnes Obel
· Last Smoke Before the Snowstorm (2011) - Benjamin Francis Leftwich
· All We’ve Known (2016) - Haux
· In No Particular Order (2019) - Sean Angus Watson
Triphop
· Blue Lines (1991) - Massive Attack
· Dummy (1994) - Portishead *
· Endtroducing... (1996) - DJ Shadow
· Whiskey (1996) - Jay-Jay Johanson
· Becoming X (1996) - Sneaker Pimps
· Archive (1996) - Londinium
· Portishead (1997) - Portishead *
· Moon Safari (1998) - Air *
· Mezzanine (1998) - Massive Attack *
· Finally We are No One (2002) - Mum
· 100th Window (2003) - Massive Attack *
· Country Falls (2004) - Husky Rescue
· Breathe. (2020) - breathe.
Downtempo
· The K&D Sessions (1998) - Kruder & Dorfmeister
· Peace Orchestra (1999) - Peace Orchestra
· The Mirror Conspiracy (2000) - Thievery Corporation
· Suzuki (2000) - Tosca
· Dehli 9 (2003) - Tosca
· Rumpistol (2003) - Rumpistol
· Toujours le Meme Film (2005) - Urbs
· Safe in the Steep Cliffs (2010) - Emancipator
· New Moon (2011) - Almunia
· Lost Keys & Stolen Kisses (2013) - Yakamoto Kotzuga
· Mantra (2016) - Jean du Voyage
· General Tales of Ordinary Madness (2017) - Oceanvs Orientalis & İdil Meşe
· Motel Music Pt. II (2017) - Jimmy Whoo
· Basic Instinct (2019) - Jimmy Whoo
· Oncle Jazz (2019) - Men I Trust *
· SON (2019) - Lin Pesto
Uptempo
· Numero Deux (2001) - The Dining Rooms
· The Night Garden (2001) - Waldeck
· Melody A.M. (2001) - Röyksopp
· Nocturnal (2001) - Four80East
· The Understanding (2005) - Röyksopp
· Experiments in Ambient Soul (2005) - The Dining Rooms
· Koop Islands (2006) - Koop
· Get Busy Living (2010) - Goldfish
· The Inevitable End (2014) - Röyksopp *
· Gran Paradiso (2016) - Waldeck
· Disconnected (2018) - Jan Blomqvist
· Paspatou (2018) - Parra for Cuva
· Sainte-Victoire (2019) - Clara Luciani
· Pour la vie entière (2022) - blond
Happy
· Here’s Little Richard (1957) - Little Richard
· Sympathique (1997) - Pink Martini
· In Between Dreams (2005) - Jack Johnson
Pop
· HIStory (1995) - Michael Jackson
· Scissor Sisters (2004) - Scissor Sisters *
· Mechanics of Emotion (2007) - Elsiane *
· Born to Die (2012) - Lana Del Rey *
· Random Access Memories (2013) - Daft Punk *
· Days Are Gone (2013) - HAIM
· When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? (2019) - Billie Eilish
Hiphop
· Get Rich or Die Tryin' (2003) - 50 Cent
· Bugünkü Neşen Cartel'den (2011) - Cartel
· Müptezhel (2017) - Ezhel *
· All My Heroes Are Cornballs (2019) - JPEGMAFIA
· Made in Turkey (2020) - Murda & Ezhel
Indie
· Veneer (2003) - Jose Gonzalez
· Cripple Crow (2005) - Devendra Banhart *
· Biscuits for Breakfast (2006) - Fink
· Develerle Yaşıyorum (2014) - Gaye Su Akyol *
· XIII (2015) - CLOVES
· Back Home (2016) - Daniel Spaleniak
· Fantezi Müzik (2016) - Jakuzi *
· Ashes (2016) - Albert af Ekenstam
· Baïkonour (2017) - Camel Power Club
· Lines (2017) - Charlie Cunningham
· Lilies (2017) - Melanie De Biasio
· Make Way for Love (2018) - Marlon Williams
· Slow Air (2018) - Still Corners
· Burning Sea (2019) - Daniel Spaleniak *
· İstirarlı Hayal Hakikattir (2018) - Gaye Su Akyol
· Tape V (2022) - Daniel Spaleniak
Rock
· The Dark Side of the Moon (1973) - Pink Floyd
· Wish You Were Here (1975) - Pink Floyd
· OK Computer (1997) - Radiohead *
· Kid A (2000) - Radiohead
· Parachutes (2000) - Cold Play *
· Bloodsport (2002) - Sneaker Pimps
· Diğer Masallar (2011) - Model *
· An Awesome Wave (2012) - Alt-J
· Familiars (2014) - The Antlers
· Girl (2015) - ISLAND *
· When We’re Still (2019) - ISLAND
Hard Rock
· Nevermind (1991) - Nirvana
· Metallica (1991) - Metallica *
· Load (1996) - Metallica *
Post-Rock
· F# A# ∞ (1997) - Godspeed You! Black Emperor *
· Agaetis Byrjun (1999) - Sigur Ros
· Come on Die Young (1999) - Mogwai
· The For Carnation (2000) - The For Carnation *
· The Mess We Made (2003) - Matt Elliott
· Hedonutopia (2016) - Lasido *
Darkjazz
· Piano Nights (2014) - Bohren & Der Club of Gore *
· Black Earth (2016) - Bohren & Der Club of Gore
· Here Be Dragons (2016) - The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble
Neofolk
· Where at Night the Wood Grouse Plays (1999) - Empyrium
· Faþir (2020) - Forndom *
Dark-Wave
· Modern Life (2010) - Jaakko Eino Kalevi
· Belirdi Gece (2012) - She Past Away
· Kælan Mikla (2016) - Kælan Mikla *
· Undir Köldum Norðurljósum (2021) - Kælan Mikla
Smart Electronic
· Artifakts (1998) - Plastikman
· Supermodified (2000) - Amon Tobin
· Our Lives on Wednesdays (2004) - I'm Not a Gun
· The Last Resort (2006) - Trentemoller
· Space is Only Noise (2011) - Nicolas Jaar
· From Love to Dust (2011) - Sina
· XXYYXX (2012) - XXYYXX *
· Finest Ego | Face Series Vol. 3 (2012) - Sekuoia & Rain Dog
· Angst (2013) - Valentin Stip
· Cosmopolitan (2015) - Mome
· In Between Worlds (2015) - Satori
· Adastra (2015) - Meteor
· Parklands (2015) - Hiatus
· Unyt (2016) - Scann-Tec *
· ArsNova (2016) - Akın Sevgör
· Grey Veils (2017) - Chainless *
· Laws of Nature (2017) - KAFUKA *
· Bask (2017) - Edamame
· It All Depends (2018) - Roderic
· A Louder Silence (2018) - Leifur James
· Kidnap at the Noodle Shop (2018) - Delic
· Alone in Berlin (2018) - Kev Sheridan *
· Cairn (2018) - Lex (de Kalhex) *
· A Part of Me (2018) - 1954
· Formation (2019) - Akın Sevgör
· Mirages (2019) - JB Dunckel & Jonathan Fitoussi
· Mannigfaltig (2019) - Dominik Eulberg
· Angel in Disguise (2020) - Leifur James *
· New Light (2020) - Gidge
· It Tumbled, Fell and for One Moment (2020) - Blackboxx *
· Soft Fascination (2021) - Blackboxx
· Oasis Sky (2021) - Tor *
· Come To Grips (2021) - edIT
Music for Thinking
· Music for Airports (1978) - Brian Eno
· Music for Egon Schiele (1996) - Rachel's *
· E Luxo So (1999) - Labradford *
· Solo Piano (2004) - Chilly Gonzales
· Corduroy Road (2005) - Goldmund
· Karl May-Melodien (2005) - Martin Böttcher
· Le Son de Soie (2006) - Liu Fang
· Le Voyage de Sahar (2006) - Anouar Brahem
· The Art of the Chorister (2006) - New College Choir
· Polaroid Piano (2009) - Akira Kosemura *
· Wintermusik (2009) - Nils Frahm *
· Living Room Songs (2011) - Ólafur Arnalds *
· Charcoal (2012) - Brambles *
· One River (2012) - Benjy Wertheimer & John De Kadt *
· The Word as Power (2013) - Lustmord
· Drowning in the Sky (2014) - Pjusk & Sleep Orchestra
· Onyx (2015) - Apocryphos, Kammarheit, Atrium Canceri
· Monument Builders (2016) - Loscil *
· In The Dark Woods (2017) - Akira Kosemura
· Luminous Emptiness (2018) - Hang Massive
· Piano Works (2020) - Gabriel Ólafs *
· Fabled Machines of Old (2021) - Dead Melodies
· Staka (2022) - Gabriel Ólafs
Electronic Jazz
· Sharing (1998) - Bugge Wesseltof *
· Khmer (1998) - Nils Petter Molvaer
· Solid Ether (2000) - Nils Petter Molvaer *
· Tourist (2000) - St Germain
· XFT II (2000) - Xaver Fischer Trio
· Songs for You (2002) - Xaver Fischer Trio
· Every Day (2002) - Cinematic Orchestra
· MJA (2003) - Metropolitan Jazz Affair
· The Branches (2011) - Long Arm
· Lund Quartet (2013) - Lund Quartet
· Lucien & The Kimono Orchestra (2016) - Lucien & The Kimono Orchestra
· Filoxiny (2018) - Skinshape
Jazz
· Kind of Blue (1959) - Miles Davis
· Sunday at the Village Vanguard (1961) - Bill Evans
· John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman (1963) - John Coltrane *
· Midnight Blue (1963) - Kenny Burrell
· Idle Moments (1964) - Grant Green
· Colour Yes (2009) - Matthew Halsall *
Latin
· Buena Vista Social Club (1997) - Buena Vista Social Club
· Cabo Verde (1997) - Cesaria Evora
· Specialist in All Styles (2002) - Orchestra Baobab
· Lagrimas Negras (2003) - El Cigala *
· Amar Y Vivir (2017) - La Santa Cecilia
Requiem
· Requiem in D Minor (1791) - Mozart
· Messa da Requiem, Op. 73 (1835) - Gaetano Donizetti
Soundtracks
· Blade Runner (1994) - Vangelis *
· The Virgin Suicides (2000) - Air
· Amelie from Montmartre (2001) - Yann Tiersen
· Zidane (2006) - Mogwai
· Egon Schiele (2016) - André Dziezuk
· Tutte le Mie Notti (2018) - Yakamoto Kotzuga
Turkish
· Bir Ömürlük Misafir (1996) - Erkan Oğur
· Hayal Gibi (1999) - Göksel Baktagir
· Bir Nefes Anadolu (2000) - Musa Eroğlu
· Divan (2004) - Orient Expressions
· Dinle Ney’den (2006) - Ender Doğan & Yahya Soyyiğit
· Aşk Tesadüfleri Sever (2006) - Müslüm Gürses *
· Kara Kutu (2014) - Cenk Erdoğan
· Dönersen Islık Çal (2017) - Manuş Baba
· Nazım Oratoryosu (2018) - Fazıl Say *
· A Twice Told Tale (2020) - Santi & Tuğçe
· Yol (2021) - Altın Gün *
I am especially a big fan of the starred items.
Playful
· Devil Fool (2012) - BE BRAVE BENJAMIN
· VANILLE FRAISE (2016) - L'Impératrice
Sexy
· Invisible Light (2010) - Scissor Sisters *
· Hands (2011) - ALPINE
· The Less I Know The Better (2015) - Tame Impala
Angry
· Territory (2017) - The Blaze
· Zombie (2018) - Bad Wolves
Trippy
· You're Mine (2015) - Raving George feat. Oscar And The Wolf
· Territory (2017) - The Blaze
· Geceler (2018) - Ezhel
· Untitled Us (2022) - ZNTNDR
Metaphysical Vibes
· I Love You (2013) - Woodkid *
· Anima (2019) - Thom Yorke *
· Lonely Feelings (2019) - LOVE SUPREME *
Pool Vibes
· Wonderful Life (2010) - Hurts *
· The Bay (2011) - Metronomy
· Blue Jeans (2012) - Lana Del Rey *
Tough Girl
· Waste of Time (2013) - MØ
· bad guy (2019) - Billie Eilish
Dark French
· Braquage (2018) - Marie-Flore
· Désir (2020) - Tallisker *
Intense (With Some Surprise Gun Scenes)
· Pursuit (2013) - Gesaffelstein
· This is America (2018) - Childish Gambino
Party (as if It Is the End of the World)
· Pretend (2011) - The Brandt Brauer Frick Ensemble feat. Emika
· Cochon Ville (2012) - Sébastien Tellier *
I am especially a big fan of the starred items.
Comedy
· Big Lebowski (1998) - Joel Coen, Ethan Coen *
· Burn After Reading (2008) - Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
· Hangover (2009) - Todd Phillips
· The Boat That Rocked (2009) - Richard Curtis *
· The Square (2017) - Ruben Östlund
· Don’t Look Up (2021) - Adam McKay
Beautiful
· Amelie (2001) - Jean-Pierre Jeunet
· The Royal Tenenbaums (2001) - Wes Anderson
· Little Miss Sunshine (2006) - Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris
· The Darjeeling Limited (2007) - Wes Anderson
· Midnight in Paris (2011) - Woody Allen
· Moonrise Kingdom (2012) - Wes Anderson
· The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014) - Wes Anderson *
Romance
· Lolita (1962) - Stanley Kubrick
· In the Mood for Love (2000) - Wong Kar-wai
· Chocolat (2000) - Lasse Hallström
· Dolls (2002) - Takeshi Kitano
· Lost in Translation (2003) - Sofia Coppola *
· The Great Gatsby (2013) - Baz Luhrmann *
· Kelebeğin Rüyası (2013) - Yılmaz Erdoğan
· The Worst Person in the World (2021) - Joachim Trier
Sensual
· Three Colors: Blue (1993) - Krzysztof Kieslowski *
· The Virgin Suicides (1999) - Sofia Coppola
· Perfume (2006) - Tom Tykwer
· Tree of Life (2011) - Terrence Malick
· Only Lovers Left Alive (2013) - Jim Jarmusch
· Paterson (2016) - Jim Jarmusch
Sexual
· In the Realm of the Senses (1976) - Nagisa Ôshima
· Eyes Wide Shut (1999) - Stanley Kubrick
· Secretary (2002) - Steven Shainberg
· The Dreamers (2003) - Bernardo Bertolucci
· Blue is the Warmest Color (2013) - Abdellatif Kechiche
Mystery
· The Game (1997) - David Fincher
· The Devil's Advocate (1997) - Taylor Hackford
· Mulholland Drive (2001) - David Lynch
· The Illusionist (2006) - Neil Burger
· Doubt (2008) - John Patrick Shanley
· White Bird in a Blizzard (2014) - Gregg Araki
· The Pale Blue Eye (2022) - Scott Cooper Mystery
Drama
· 8 1/2 (1962) - Federico Fellini
· Vivre Sa Vie (1962) - Jean-Luc Godard
· Ballad of Narayama (1983) - Shôhei Imamura
· Anayurt Oteli (1987) - Ömer Kavur *
· Dead Poets Society (1989) - Peter Weir
· Scent of a Woman (1992) - Martin Brest
· Forrest Gump (1994) - Robert Zemeckis
· The Shawshank Redemption (1994) - Frank Darabont
· Sunchaser (1996) - Michael Cimino
· The English Patient (1996) - Anthony Minghella
· Masumiyet (1997) - Zeki Demirkubuz
· Truman Show (1998) - Peter Weir
· Magnolia (1999) - Paul Thomas Anderson
· Dogville (2003) - Lars von Trier
· The Return (2003) - Andrey Zvyagintsev
· The Lives of Others (2006) - Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
· The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007) - Julian Schnabel
· Pandora’nın Kutusu (2008) - Yeşim Ustaoğlu
· Somewhere (2010) - Sofia Coppola
· The Great Beauty (2013) - Paolo Sorrentino
· 12 Years a Slave (2014) - Steve McQueen
· Force Majeure (2014) - Ruben Östlund
· Youth (2015) - Paolo Sorrentino
· Virgin Mountain (2015) - Dagur Kári
· Captain Fantastic (2016) - Matt Ross
· The Meyerowitz Stories (2017) - Noah Baumbach
· The Florida Project (2017) - Sean Parker
· Nomadland (2020) - Chloé Zhao
· Another Round (2020) - Thomas Vinterberg
Talent
· Barfly (1987) - Barbet Schroeder
· İstanbul Kanatlarımın Altında (1995) - Mustafa Altıoklar
· Good Will Hunting (1997) - Gus Van Sant *
· A Beautiful Mind (2001) - Ron Howard
· The Imitation Game (2014) - Morten Tyldum
· Frank (2014) - Lenny Abrahamson
· Whiplash (2014) - Damien Chazelle
· Birdman (2014) - Alejandro G. Iñárritu
· Egon Schiele: Death and the Maiden (2016) - Dieter Berner
· The Professor and the Madman (2019) - Farhad Safinia
Fantasy
· Beetle Juice (1988) - Tim Burton
· Edward Scissorhands (1990) - Tim Burton
· The Mask (1994) - Chuck Russell
· The Triplets of Belleville (2003) - Sylvain Chomet
· Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005) - Tim Burton
· Pan's Labyrinth (2006) - Guillermo del Toro
· The Dark Knight (2008) - Christopher Nolan
· Dark Shadows (2012) - Tim Burton
Bizarre
· The Color of Pomegranates (1969) - Sergei Parajanov
· The Big Feast (1973) - Marco Ferreri
· Eraserhead (1977) - David Lynch *
· Elephant Man (1980) - David Lynch
· Being John Malkovitch (1999) - Spike Jonze
· Taxidermia (2006) - György Pálfi
· The Bothersome Man (2006) - Jens Lien
· Dogtooth (2009) - Yorgos Lanthimos
· Never Let Me Go (2010) - Mark Romanek
· Deep Gold (2014) - Julian Rosefeldt *
· Manifesto (2015) - Julian Rosefeldt
· The Lobster (2015) - Yorgos Lanthimos
· Parasite (2019) - Bong Joon-Ho
· Midsommar (2019) - Ari Aster *
· Dogs Don’t Wear Pants (2019) - J.-P. Valkeapää *
Cult
· Clockwork Orange (1971) - Stanley Kubrick
· Taxi Driver (1976) - Martin Scorsese
· Pulp Fiction (1994) - Quentin Tarantino *
· Fight Club (1999) - David Fincher *
· American Psycho (2000) - Mary Harron *
· Old Boy (2003) - Chan-wook Park *
· Sin City (2005) - Frank Miller, Robert Rodriguez *
· Nightcrawler (2014) - Dan Gilroy
· Victoria (2015) - Sebastian Schipper *
Crime
· The Godfather (1972) - Francis Ford Coppola *
· Leon the Professional (1994) - Luc Beson *
· İz (1994) - Yeşim Ustaoğlu
· Se7en (1995) - David Fincher
· Fargo (1996) - Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
· The Usual Suspects (1996) - Bryan Singer
· City of God (2002) - Fernando Meirelles, Kátia Lund
· Capote (2005) - Bennett Miller
· No Country for Old Men (2007) - Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
· God's Pocket (2014) - John Slattery
· Hateful Eight (2015) - Quentin Tarantino
· Slow West (2015) - John Maclean
· Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017) - Martin McDonagh
· Bad Times at the El Royale (2018) - Drew Goddard
· The Irishman (2019) - Martin Scorsese
· Knives Out (2019) - Rian Johnson
Horror
· The Shining (1980) - Stanley Kubrick
· 3 Extremes (2004) - Fruit Chan, Takashi Miike, Chan-wook Park
· Saw (2004) - James Wan
· The VVitch (2015) - Robert Eggers
· Suspiria (2018) - Luca Guadagnino
· The Lighthouse (2019) - Robert Eggers
War
· Full Metal Jacket (1987) - Stanley Kubrick
· Schindler's List (1993) - Steven Spielberg
· Saving Private Ryan (1998) - Steven Spielberg
· The Pianist (2002) - Roman Polanski
· House of Fools (2002) - Andrey Konchalovskiy
Sci-Fi
· Metropolis (1927) - Fritz Lang
· 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) - Stanley Kubrick
· Blade Runner (1982) - Ridley Scott
· Back to the Future (1984) - Robert Zemeckis
· 12 Monkeys (1994) - Terry Gilliam
· Ghost in the Shell (1995) - Mamoru Oshii
· The Fifth Element (1997) - Luc Besson
· Matrix (1999) - Lana Wachowski, Lily Wachowski
· Vanilla Sky (2001) - Cameron Crowe
· Avatar (2009) - James Cameron
· Inception (2010) - Christopher Nolan
· Rise of the Planet of Apes (2011) - Rupert Wyatt
· Cloud Atlas (2012) - Tom Tykwer, Lana Wachowski
· Oblivion (2013) - Joseph Kosinski
· Her (2013) - Spike Jonze
· Transcendence (2014) - Wally Pfister
· Automata (2014) - Gabe Ibáñez
· Blade Runner 2049 (2017) - Denis Villeneuve *
· Grain (2017) - Semih Kaplanoğlu
Musical
· Grease (1978) - Randal Kleiser
· Dancer in the Dark (2000) - Lars von Trier
· Sound of Noise (2010) - Ola Simonsson, Johannes Stjärne Nilsson
Documentary
· Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth (1988) - Bill Moyers *
· Life in the Undergrowth (2005) - David Attenborough
· March of the Penguins (2005) - Luc Jacquet
· Sound of Insects (2009) - Peter Liechti
· Pina (2011) - Wim Wenders
· Human Planet (2011) - John Hurt
· Dancing with the Birds (2019) - Huw Cordey
Series
· Twilight Zone (1959 - 1964) - Rod Serling *
· House M.D. (2004 - 2012) - David Shore
· Westworld (2016 - ) - Jonathan Nolan, Lisa Joy
· Anne With An E (2017 - 2019) - Moira Walley-Beckett
· Altered Carbon (2018 - ) - Laeta Kalogridis
· Messiah (2020) - Michael Petroni
