There's something amazingly beautiful about code, and I'm pretty sure that no one who hasn't written much code has any idea. It has nothing to do with typing fast, or being cool, or money, or respect, and very little to do with hacking, and not much to do with streams of bits in the matrix of reality (though now we're getting warmer).

When you stand under a tall building and look up, what do you see?

Architecture? Space? Scale? Raw materials in massive refinement?

Now imagine creating that architecture, and pressing play, and everything inside that building that's happening, which you know is happening, but can't see, now happens because you pressed play.

That's the closest description I can give, but unfortunately it still isn't very close.