Grady Booch (currently of IBM) is pasionate about the way we develop software. Why?

Despite its transparency, as Bjarne Stroustrup has observed, "our civilization runs on software." It is therefore a tremendous privilege as well as a deep responsibility to be a software developer. It is a privilege because what we do collectively as an industry has changed and will continue to change the world. It is a responsibility because the world in turn relies on the products of our labor in so many ways.

The book is being made available online once you have regitered and logged in, but I was not able to find any chapters with actual content...

Grady's site has other good stuff though.

The site can also be painfully sluggish (perhaps because it is written in java? :P)