Hi, welcome!
The sheer joy of making things... the fascination of fashioning
complex puzzle-like objects of interlocking moving parts and watching
them work in subtle cycles... the delight of working in such a
tractable medium. The programmer, like the poet, works only slightly
removed from pure thought-stuff. He builds his castles in the air,
from air, creating by exertion of the imagination.
-- Frederick P. Brooks, "The Mythical Man-Month", 1972