I was thinking about this yesterday, as I was trying to get started on an new project, and I was reminded of the cliché scene from many movies of the writer, ar

I was thinking about this yesterday, as I was trying to get started on an new project, and I was reminded of the cliché scene from many movies of the writer, architect, or what have you, writing something on a piece of paper, crumpling it up and tossing it in the waste basket. You know, then the camera cuts to a pile of crumpled up papers cascading out of a filled up waste basket and onto the floor. A good part of programming is design, and design can't be measured by lines of code per day or anything like that. I think we all need to come to grips with that. Some days we code; some days we crumple paper.