Marcello Tosatti

The current maintainer of the Linux kernel.

http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/1880/5842

Marcelo Tosatti became the maintainer of the 2.4 stable kernel when he was 18 years old in November of 2001. His first kernel release was 2.4.16 on November 26'th which very quickly followed the earlier 2.4.15 to address an issue with filesystem corruption. Two years later, he has recently released 2.4.23 and plans to soon put the 2.4 stable kernel into maintenance mode, only addressing bugs and security issues.

Well, if you can handle a wife at age of 20, the kernel is nothing ;)

Yukihiro Matsumoto (Matz)

The author of the Ruby programming language.

http://www.artima.com/intv/craftP.html

Yukihiro Matsumoto, the creator of the Ruby language, talks with Bill Venners about becoming a better programmer through reading code, learning languages, focusing on fundamentals, being lazy, and considering interfaces.

Bill Venners: You also mentioned in your ten top tips: "Be lazy. Machines should serve human beings. Often programmers serve machines unconsciously. Let machines serve you. Do everything you can to allow yourself to be lazy." Why should I try to be lazy?

Yukihiro Matsumoto: You want to be lazy. You want to do anything to reduce your work. I work hard to reduce my work, to be lazy.

Miguel De Icaza

Coauthor of Mono, Gnome, MC.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/netframework/using/understanding/cli/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/dndotnet/html/deicazainterview.asp

Using the ECMA Standards: An Interview with Miguel de Icaza

In this interview, Miguel de Icaza, the founder of GNOME and Ximian, talks about UNIX components, Bonobo, Mono, and Microsoft .NET

Charles Simonyi

Microsoft Distinguished Engineer – the WYSIWYG, Hungarian Notation, Intentional Programming

http://www.edge.org/digerati/simonyi/simonyi_p2.html

"Intentional Programming"

A Talk With Charles Simonyi

("The WYSIWYG")

Chris Pratley’s blog

Now here is man.

Chris Pratley is Group Program Manager with Microsoft’s Authoring Services – Word, Publisher OneNote.. Recently he has had a sent of blog articles about Word that you simply got to read. Absolutely got to read them because he says it – and he says it so in-your-face.

Let's talk about Word (168 comments) - look at the number of comments on this – this is at the time when I am writing this

Word Myths and Feedback (38 comments)

More Word Feedback (25 comments)

More responses to comments on Word posts (18 comments)

(Thanks Sajith for pointing me at this)