Recently, Brian Kernighan gave a lecture at Princeton talking about "The Changing Face of Programming".
(Warning: PDF Link) The Changing Face of Programming - Brian Kernighan

University of Toronto business-school dean Roger Martin on how Milton Glaser and Massimo Vignelli think about design and its relevance to business.

they don’t confuse what they presently see with reality, and therefore don’t see the present state of a thing as immutable.
they don’t fear the ambiguity that’s created by models or concepts that conflict with one [...]