Talks

Simple Made Easy by Rich Hickey in 2011
http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Simple-Made-Easy

Jonathan Blow on Software Quality at the CSUA GM2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k56wra39lwA

dotGo 2015 - Rob Pike - Simplicity is Complicated
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFejpH_tAHM

Wat - A lightning talk by Gary Bernhardt from CodeMash 2012
https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat

Bret Victor - Inventing on Principle
(especially the conclusion at the end, after the demos)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUv66718DII

Steve Jobs - Bicycles for the mind
(just a short clip. Computers as a tool rather than distraction machines)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ob_GX50Za6c

Rob Landley - Toybox: Writing a New Command Line From Scratch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGmtP5Lg_t0