Nick Foster - Life as a Programmer

"You know, when you have a program that does something really 
cool, and you wrote it from scratch, and it took a 
significant part of your life, you grow fond of it. When it's 
finished, it feels like some kind of amorphous sculpture that 
you've created. It has an abstract shape in your head that's 
completely independent of its actual purpose. Elegant, 
simple, beautiful. Then, only a year later, after making 
dozens of pragmatic alterations to suit the people who use 
it, not only has your Venus- de-Milo lost both arms, she also 
has a giraffe's head sticking out of her chest and a cherubic 
penis that squirts colored water into a plastic bucket. The 
romance has become so painful that each day you struggle with 
an overwhelming urge to smash the fucking thing to pieces 
with a hammer."