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I'd recommend a talk by Scott Meyers called 'Things that matter' to anyone who's working with developing software. It's entertaining and presents a good list of things that should be kept in mind while creating software/interfaces. I find it inspiring and I find myself watching it again and again (more so when I'm down in the corporate bullshit dumps).
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@AleCx04 absolutely! He's been relentless in making C++ a language that is preferred by professionals as well as beginners. It's so much fun to watch his conference videos.
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@dr-ant I quoted Scott from that talk when he said: "Consistency is the basis for abstraction"
I find it resonates and fits like a mouse and keyboard with the work I'm doing on building ontologies in knowledge graphs
Scott Meyers.
He's just amazing. The way he thinks, he teaches, is absolutely wonderful. He's inspired me on many occasions.
Herb Sutter.
Absolute beast of a programmer. His guru of the week series is a simple but effective way to communicate concepts and techniques in a language.
There are a lot more - Scott Hanselman, Martin Fowler, Andrew Koenig, Andrei Alexandrescu, Barabara Moo and many more.
They remind me of why I chose programming. It wasn't for money or fame, just to solve puzzles in cool ways. It's the way you can take a simple concept and apply it to great effect that brings me joy and these people do it relentlessly.
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