[TazeTSchnitzel]

I'm a fan of Guy Steele's Growing a Language, a talk about programming language design where he limited himself to using mostly only single-syllable words: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ahvzDzKdB0

[seanmcdirmid]

Not to mentioned hand crayon drawn transparencies.

[e12e]

This seems like a good companion (probably as a sequel) to:

"Richard Feynman - Computer Heuristics Lecture": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKWGGDXe5MA

In general, Feynman might be a poster child for using simple language to explain complex things.