I haven’t met them, but I have heard about them – on the internet, in the books. Someday, I will make up a list about people I would have met by then, from this list.

Bill Gates - co-founder, Microsoft

Mark Zuckerberg - founder, Facebook

Mark Russinovich - of Sysinternals fame

Kevin Rose - creator, Digg

Jonathan Schwartz - CEO, Sun Microsystems

Larry Ellison - co-founder, CEO, Oracle Corporation

Anand Agarawala - of BumpTop fame

Jordan Mechner - Designer, Prince of Persia

Matt Mullenweg - founding developer, WordPress

Michael Arrington - maintainer, Techcrunch

Nicholas Carr - writer and blogger

Paul Graham - the essayist

Jamie Zawinski - xscreensaver fame

Donald E. Knuth - father of analysis of algorithm, TeX

Kent Brewster - writer; and for web-based prototypes

Bill Joy - winner Grace Murray Hopper Award, 1986

Tim Bray - XML, Atom, W3C

Why the Lucky Stiff - creator, Why’s (poignant) guide to Ruby

more names will be added with time (and hopefully, quite frequently)