Really? [He imagines Flynn stumbling into the ENCOM system thirty years ago, the first User to ever see the world on the other side of the screen. The entire system must have seemed as alien as the programs and Bit first seemed to Alan.]

It’s funny. When I’m writing code, a bit’s as simple as a one or zero. But on your side of the screen, it’s so much more than that. [It’s, well, alive. But creating that life doesn’t feel divine, or even all that special. All it takes is a few lines of text run through a compiler. It certainly isn’t intentional.

Alan’s tone remains light, but the smile on his face grows self-deprecating.] Sometimes I think programs give us Users too much credit.