A few lines

Alexys 2021-10-19 09:52:44

Do you know why people like violence? It is because it feels good. Humans find violence deeply satisfying. But remove the satisfaction, and the act becomes... hollow.

Alan Turing: When people talk to each other, they never say what they mean.
[pause]
Alan Turing: They say something else and you're expected to just know what they mean.

Alan Turing: [after telling the story] Now you decide am I a machine,am I a human,am I a war hero,or am I a criminal.
Detective Robert Nock: I'm not the person to answer that...

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  • Joan Clarke: [to a convalescing Alan] Why don't we do a crossword puzzle? It'll only take us five minutes. Or in your case, six.

  • Title Card: After a year of government-mandated hormonal therapy, Alan Turing committed suicide on June 7th 1954.

    Title Card: He was 41 years old.

    Title Card: Between 1885 and 1967, approximately 49,000 homosexual men were convicted of gross indecency under British law.

    Title Card: In 2013, Queen Elizabeth II granted Turing a posthumous royal pardon, honouring his unprecedented achievements.

    Title Card: Historians estimate that breaking Enigma shortened the war by more than two years, saving over 14 million lives.

    Title Card: It remained a government-held secret for more than 50 years.

    Title Card: Turing's work inspired generations of research into what scientists called "Turing Machines".

    Title Card: Today, we call them computers.