The computer was just a machine, but he found it easy to personalize the thing....
"Way of a Rebel"
Walter M. Miller
Isabel, March complained, I wish you wouldn't think of me in he, him, and his; I never personalize you in my thoughts: you remain always a vague unindividualized essence, not quite without form and void, but nounless and pronounless.
"A Hazard of New Fortunes"
William Dean Howells