Programmers need to write.

That was what made it fun; he could actually touch the machine and make it obey him. “I’d run a little program and when it worked, I’d get a little high, and then I’d do another. It was neat. I loved writing programs. I could control the machine. I could make it express my own thoughts. It was an expansion of the mind to have a computer.” — Alsing, P126 I've never actually read soul of a new machine, but I feel like this quote hit me right in the feels. It speaks to the innate need of every person for control, and gives a person a view of the abyss inherent in each and every person. A burning obsession, a deep, damp, scary place where there is no light, only darkness. ...Well, as always, faith in self. When the abyss stares back, laugh in it's face and tell a joke.