The author of this article sent out some questions to a number of notable programmers, and has posted the responses that were sent back.
Starring:
Linus Torvalds – The Linux kernel author
Dave Thomas – Author of the „Pragmmatic Programmerâ€, „Programming Ruby†and other great books about programming. One can read his mainly programming-related thoughts here.
David Heinemeier Hansson – Author of the Rails Framework – the new hot web development framework. He has a weblog here.
Steve Yegge – Proably the least known from guys here, but also made one of the most interestings answers, has a popular weblog about programming. He is also the author of a game called „Wyvernâ€.
Peter Norvig – Research Director at Google, a well known Lisper, author of famous (in some circles at least) books about AI. See his homepage.
Guido Van Rossum – The Python language creator
James Gosling – The Java language creator
Tim Bray – One of the XML and Atom specifications author and a blogger too.