[walterbell]

There's an 80s book with fantastic interviews of programmers before they became business leaders, check out the reviews:

http://www.amazon.com/Programmers-Work-Interviews-Computer-I... & http://www.amazon.com/Programmers-at-Work-Susan-Lammers/dp/0...

Some (all?) interviews free here: http://programmersatwork.wordpress.com/

[greenyoda]

There's also a more recent book of interviews with well-known programmers called Coders at Work:

http://codersatwork.com

[ahmadajmi]

+1 a very good book.