Andrew Braybrook - Game designer and programmer of Paradroid and Uridium amongst others. Prominent in the 8 and 16bit era (an age of rockstars, really) I still

Andrew Braybrook - Game designer and programmer of Paradroid and Uridium amongst others. Prominent in the 8 and 16bit era (an age of rockstars, really) I still think about those days to inspire myself. Kai Krause - Early Photoshop pioneer, designer of Kai's Power Tools, Bryce. I see him as a kind of artist/programmer, who demonstrated that application software development wasn't just about cranking out features, but about creating an experience for the user, a particular window onto this amazing digital world. Matthew Dillon - Developer of Dragonfly BSD and prominent old-school Amiga hacker. Absolutely solid programmer. Wish he did more interviews. Rich Hickey - I don't yet have a reason to use Clojure or Datomic, but I watch every Rich Hickey talk or interview I can get my hands on. Hammock Driven Development is the only development ideology that appeals to me :)