We're similar that way. I think of Intel as saying if you want to retrieve something, you need an accessible place to put it first. So MOV is literally "move i

We're similar that way. I think of Intel as saying if you want to retrieve something, you need an accessible place to put it first. So MOV is literally "move into this register I can access, this value that I can't access until it in a register." For example, a wordy version of how I think through MOV AX,5 could be: "move into AX, the value 5" where AX is an accessible container for the value 5. I did assembler coding for more than a decade, so I'm pretty nostalgic about it. Nothing I do really calls for it anymore these days.