JQuery
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Resig

Doom
Quake
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_D._Carmack

Linux
Git
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linus_Torvalds

Joel on software
stackoverflow.com
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joel_Spolsky

JUnit
TDD
Extreme Programming
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_Beck

Effective Java
Java Concurrency In Practice
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_Bloch

Java
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Gosling

Free Software Movement
GNU
Emacs
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Stallman

C++
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bjarne_Stroustrup

C
Unix
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Ritchie

The Art of Computer Programming
TeX
Premature optimization is the root of all evil.
Software is hard.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Knuth

Quicksort
Null reference
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Hoare

Mythical Man-Month
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Brooks

Dijkstra algorithm
Go To Statemenbt Considered Hamful
Semaphore
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edsger_W._Dijkstra