genius from the stars

Krystal 2022-04-19 09:01:17

I didn't read the introduction before watching it, I thought it was a sci-fi blockbuster, so I went to watch it. So the following dialogue took place at the beginning of the film:


"It's not a science fiction film, how can it be adapted from a real story."

"It's not a science fiction film, it's a feature film about Turing"

"Who is Turing"

"It's Jobs' Apple logo that is missing a bite. The person who pays tribute."


At this time, the literary and historical scum thought to himself: I'm a fool, I want to watch a science fiction movie.


Haven't read Turing's story, but read Jobs' biography carefully. Because my father has said several times: Jobs and I were born in the same year, the same month, the same day, I really want to see how different my life is from that of a genius. So I bought a copy for him and read it myself.


Here are some thoughts that have nothing to do with the film or the book.


Whether it is Jobs or Turing, they are actually quite similar. Amazing talent (today NASA said that these super-brain masters may come from Kepler planet, commonly known as K star), painful soul.


I don't know whether I have experienced more or less, and whether my understanding is deeper or shallower. I found that every brilliant person always has all kinds of scars in the past and in reality, but I don't know whether it is the loneliness created by talent or the talent created by loneliness. Then I thought, maybe like light and shadow, the light is too bright, and the shadow cast is always darker.


He should be considered a mediocre person by now. I suddenly remembered that when I was very young, I seemed to have been crowded out by my elementary school classmates. The group of children who can never fit in, and the classmates who can never please. Lonely childhood. I'm sensitive to relationships, maybe it's a scar from my childhood.


Thinking about life so far, success is not successful, failure is really failure. Then I started looking at cyclical stocks, which probably made my approach to life even more -- ruthless. If you look at it from a distance, the ups and downs of life are just like the fluctuations of cyclical stocks. The waves are a kind of thing called fate and luck. Life is so long, there will definitely be a chance for you to taste the small mountains and mountains, and there will also be a chance for you to taste "I rely on". Therefore, we should follow the trend, the wave is coming, and it should be higher. When the waves go, stop for a while. There are really many species in this world. The ancients said that the bird bird knows the ambition of Honghu, but if it really generates a bird bird, it can't be helped.


I have met many friends who have great ambitions. I looked at them as if they were on the ground looking up at the birds in the sky. We should be grateful to these great human beings, because of these excellent species, this planet can allow itself to live in such a mediocre and inaction.


I think about the people who grew up with me, and I think about the people who grew up with me in life and in their career paths. I remember when my life was the worst, when my body and spirit were the worst, the police uncle once said to me, "Look at your work so hard that you have left your hometown. There is an eldest sister in our unit who has an ordinary life every day, raising children and flowers. very good. At my age, I scoffed at the police uncle's outlook on life. Now that I think about it, he does live wiser than me.


I think life is like being in a rushing river. Even if you are not a good swimmer, you always have to swim hard. But you must have a coordinate system. When you can't swim, or get lost, you can look up and know where you should go. This coordinate system should be love and happiness, something that exists eternally beyond mundane life.


My father is an older generation of programmers. He lamented more than once that he played with computers, why is Jobs so good. He didn't finish reading "Jobs Biography", and I told him later, you and Jobs, who was born on the same day in the same year and the same month, are half a world away. You live a mediocre life than him, and you live a happier life than him.


I would like to pay tribute to Turing and Steve Jobs, who dedicated their lives to the advancement of mankind with this non-centred rambling. Everyone has the right to live in their own world. Maybe their pain is just a normal state that mortals like me can't understand. In short, no one has the right to point fingers at other people's lives.

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The Imitation Game quotes

  • Alan Turing: [voiceover] There were 159 million, million, million possible Enigma settings. All we had to do was try each one. But if we had ten men checking one setting a minute for 24 hours every day and seven days every week, how many days do you think it would take to check each of the settings? Well it's not days, it's years. It's 20 *million* years. To stop a coming attack, we would have to check 20 million years' worth of settings in 20 minutes.

  • Alan Turing: Sometimes we can't do what feels good. We have to do what is logical