Eich: I should be a better student of the literature. But I think it's sort of like music in that you have to practice it. And you can learn a lot reading other people's code. I did like Brian Kernighan's books; I thought they were neat, because they would build up a small amount of code, and start reusing it as you go, and modularizing. And Knuth's Art of Computer Programming, Volumes 1–3, especially the seminumerical stuff. Double-hashing—I love those parts. The lemma about the golden ratio with the proof left as an exercise.
