“ADAM marveled at the multitude of small differences between how humans liked things done. It kept things interesting. A thought flashed through his lower processes, the idea of being left alone with minimal contact with others for centuries. If he had had a human body, a shudder would have run through it. The boredom of analyzing the same data sets over and over again horrified him. He locked down that data flow process and prevented it from penetrating into his cycles further. Having observed human interaction, he believed that what he had just encountered was a flash of anxiety. It was not a pleasant feeling. But at least he could alter his programming to prevent such thoughts occupying any spare cycles for a long period. He returned to checking the programming”