The only way I know to fight the voices un my head  

 false! 

 True, talking to myself in the mirror does the job.

Although, isn't the code we write the mirror to our souls? 

 I want to learn how to program 

 Programming is art. 

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 10 print "NOSTR FTW!"
20 goto 10 

 absolutely is 

 Code is beautiful text .. 

Early days , when we figured out text ,  written word commanded as much attention as the code in our times. Which meant iterative rigor to precipitate the words into rule based immaculate verses - such that the message stayed in our carbon based  memory. Primary objective of a computer program is to have data persist in silicon memory.

 No wonder good code rhymes like a poem !

Back then, the upfront effort to organize scribing paraphernalia (quills, palm leaves, ink etc.) was a lot ... . And that you could write only one copy at a time was an entry barrier. It mandated the text must be accurate, succinct and comprehensible. One may argue scaling compute, storage and network are barriers that force similar constraints on our code. 

 Hey Callie, it’s Whitney so here’s the thing I don’t know how to code that well I did when I was younger, but you know I was shot in the head but so things happen but I think programming can be anything. It can be a masterpiece. It can be beautiful like I’ve seen people make art I mean, even as a kid I Took apart a bunch of coat hangers because of that show mommy dearest you you know don’t get the whole coat hangers anyway I took them and then I cut them apart. I soldered them together and I made three dimensional metallic blocks you know in the air anyway if I do it again, I would do like Mercado and everything I did Merkaba oh my gosh it’s on the VCR at my parents house. I totally forgot anyway thanks for all y’all do.