Perhaps not what you're thinking of, but it reminds me of this quote from Kevlin Henney: "There is an art, craft and science to programming that extends well b

Perhaps not what you're thinking of, but it reminds me of this quote from Kevlin Henney: "There is an art, craft and science to programming that extends well beyond the program. The act of programming marries the discrete world of computers with the fluid world of human affairs. Programmers mediate between the negotiated and uncertain truths of business and the crisp, uncompromising domain of bits and bytes and higher constructed types." http://www.slideshare.net/Kevlin/cool-code/4 http://www.slideshare.net/Kevlin/cool-code/4