I saw the play QED (about Feynman) with friends and several days later read that Wall Street Journal columnist Jason Zweig included "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!" on his investor must-read list, which is curious because the book has nothing to do with business (and little to do with physics).  Zweig must have, like myself,  thought the book was so funny that in order to justify his  recommendation to the Wall Street Journal readership, he made a tenuous connection:  "three qualities an investor needs above all others are independence, skepticism and emotional self-control."  Well, I saw no business connection whatsoever in the book but am extremely grateful for the recommendation.  It's the funniest book I have ever read. I disturbed people in the other room with my guffawing the entire three days I was reading it.  I couldn't help myself.  Really funny and really intelligent. It would be difficult to give examples because the stories individually are pages long and together heighten each other's effect. Think of it this way: here's a  physicist who won the Nobel prize,  who in his 20s was invited to work at Los Alamos on the Bomb, discovered whatever he discovered in physics etc. etc. and he's caring, quirky and hyper-inquisitive.  And what he is interested to write about here is not how important he is (he seems unaffected about that) but rather the strange ways of people.  Hilarious. I highly recommend it.