I'm a big fan of Fabian Pascal. Here are 10 Articles/Pages/Responses that I like the best. =P You can find tons more from these though. They are almost all pure gold. =)

  1. On Grinding Water: Reply to St. Laurent
  2. NO THEORY, NO RELATIONAL, NO THINKING
  3. On Incompetence
  4. ON CALLING A SPADE A SPADE: REPLY TO CALLAHAN
  5. The Data Exchange Tail - Part 1
  6. ON TRADE MEDIA'S "BALANCE": ANOTHER ONE BITES THE DUST
  7. If You Liked SQL,You'll Love XQUERY
  8. Something “Old,” Something “New,” Neither True
  9. An Old Class of Errors
  10. The XML Bug
+ 1 Truth, Fads and Principles: What's Wrong with the Database Industry?