Here is lies a note for the writer. A note in writing because he is a control freak. He wants to have control over every situation. When he deals with the “real world” he finds that he can not control everybody like he can control the variables and objects in the programs he creates. That is why he told to himself “You can not normalize people like databases”.
There are times when he hopes, only if people were like databases. Do some normalization procedures on them to increase their efficiency and reliability. But he knows it can not be done. So he gets back to whatever he is doing. He stops thinking about this topic.
Then there are other times when he remembers that he wished “if I could just normalize him”. Then he regrets that he ever wished such a thing. Because he knows if he could do that. He would have done it. If he had done it, the world would have become a very boring place. He probably would have normalized himself. If it were so, this document wouldn’t exist.