Real Engineers and Computer Programmers

Linus Torvalds

Explaining why people like him:

1. Require silence to code.

2. Interact through buffers.

3. Write elegant code.

4. Are grounded and solution-oriented.

5. May be perceived as "not nice".

About why there's nothing like C/C++ (because C is just better structured ASM, and BASIC perhaps being not even that).

About why the Code is the Design.

Software is like sex: it's better when it's free.

— Linus Torvalds (@Linus__Torvalds) January 29, 2013

Bill Gates

Gates talking about "the elegance of writing super-tight code" (at 2:50).

About his early programming experiences.

Steve Wozniak

Steve Wozniak Debunks One of Apple's Biggest Myths

One of the most legendary engineers and programmers in history talks about wanting to get things exactly right, and being happiest at the bottom of the org chart.