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The soul of a new machine:

“So it’s up early the next morning for Veres. He doesn’t want any interference; he wants time alone with this bug. To Veres, debugging the machine — particularly the [Instruction Processor], the part that he helped to design — has become ‘a very personal thing.... A computer, to people who designed it — it is part of them. You can almost feel what’s wrong with it.’ This problem feels like a time bomb. But how to find it? ‘I get quite a lot of work done in the morning while taking a shower,’ says Veres. ‘Showers are kinda boring things, all things considered.’ Now in the shower, before leaving for work, he conceives a new approach.”