i've read martin fowler's who needs an architect article before, and i've just re-read it, and thought i'd post up a quote that sings to the hart of why i love being a developer:

"Software is not limited by physics, like buildings are. It is limited by imagination, by design, by organization. In short, it is limited by properties of people, not by properties of the world."

brilliant.

i've always loved the creative design aspect of software development; it's potentially limitless.