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“Ah! ¡Una pianista!, ya veo —exclamó míster Podgers—, una excelente pianista pero quizá apenas musical. Muy reservada, muy honrada, y con un gran cariño por los animales. —¡Eso”
― Oscar Wilde, El retrato de Dorian Gray*El príncipe feliz*El ruiseñor y la rosa*El crimen de Lord Arthur Saville*El fantasma de Canterville (Colección Sepan Cuantos: 133)

“El mundo es un escenario, pero el reparto de la obra está mal hecho. De”
― Oscar Wilde, El retrato de Dorian Gray*El príncipe feliz*El ruiseñor y la rosa*El crimen de Lord Arthur Saville*El fantasma de Canterville (Colección Sepan Cuantos: 133)

“the global impact of pure science rises above all national boundaries, and the sheer timelessness of pure mathematics transcends the limitations of his twentieth-century span. When Turing returned to the prime numbers in 1950 they were unchanged from when he left them in 1939, wars”
― Andrew Hodges, Alan Turing: The Enigma: The Book That Inspired the Film The Imitation Game

“Although that interest is partly gone, I know I must put as much energy if not as much interest into my work as if he were alive, because that is what he would like me to do. I”
― Andrew Hodges, Alan Turing: The Enigma: The Book That Inspired the Film The Imitation Game

“One is perhaps too inclined to think only of him alive at some future time when we shall meet him again; but it is really so much more helpful to think of him as just separated from us for the present.”
― Andrew Hodges, Alan Turing: The Enigma: The Book That Inspired the Film The Imitation Game

“Hilbert, who was always down-to-earth, liked to say: ‘One must always be able to say “tables, chairs, beer-mugs”, instead of “points, lines, planes”.”
― Andrew Hodges, Alan Turing: The Enigma: The Book That Inspired the Film The Imitation Game

“The ‘real’ mathematics of the ‘real’ mathematicians, the mathematics of Fermat and Euler and Gauss and Abel and Riemann, is almost wholely ‘useless’ (and this is true of ‘applied’ as of ‘pure’ mathematics). It is not possible to justify the life of any genuine professional mathematician on the ground of the ‘utility’ of his work.… The great modern achievements of applied mathematics have been in relativity and quantum mechanics, and these subjects are, at present at any rate, almost as ‘useless’ as the theory of numbers. It”
― Andrew Hodges, Alan Turing: The Enigma: The Book That Inspired the Film The Imitation Game

“God, having created his Universe, has now screwed the cap on His pen, put His feet on the mantelpiece and left the work to get on with itself.”
― Andrew Hodges, Alan Turing: The Enigma: The Book That Inspired the Film The Imitation Game

“It was difficult enough being a mathematician, this being the frightening subject of which even educated people knew nothing, not even what it was, and of which they might proudly boast ignorance. His”
― Andrew Hodges, Alan Turing: The Enigma: The Book That Inspired the Film The Imitation Game

“he talked excitedly of the future of automatic computers, and reassured them that mathematicians would not be put out of work. In”
― Andrew Hodges, Alan Turing: The Enigma: The Book That Inspired the Film The Imitation Game

“The popular view that scientists proceed inexorably from well-established fact to well-established fact, never being influenced by any unproved conjecture, is quite mistaken. Provided it is made clear which are proved facts and which are conjectures, no harm can result.”
― Andrew Hodges, Alan Turing: The Enigma: The Book That Inspired the Film The Imitation Game

“had explicitly been concerned to treat mathematics as if it were a chess game, without asking for a connection with the world. That question was, as it were, always left for someone else to tackle.”
― Andrew Hodges, Alan Turing: The Enigma: The Book That Inspired the Film The Imitation Game

“The whole thinking process is still rather mysterious to us, but I believe that the attempt to make a thinking machine will help us greatly in finding out how we think ourselves.”
― Andrew Hodges, Alan Turing: The Enigma: The Book That Inspired the Film The Imitation Game

“but he was totally uninterested in poetry and not particularly sensitive to literature or any of the arts, and therefore not at all an easy person to supply with reading matter.”
― Andrew Hodges, Alan Turing: The Enigma: The Book That Inspired the Film The Imitation Game

“One step and then another, and I will not fall.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings