Amy

“Alan had become more prepared to go along with the system. It was not that he had ever rebelled, for he had only withdrawn; nor was it now a reconciliation, for he was still withdrawn. But he would take the ‘obvious duties’ as conventions rather than impositions, as long as they interfered with nothing important.”
― Andrew Hodges, Alan Turing: The Enigma

“In 1950 he was hardly likely to be on trial for heresy. But he certainly felt himself up against an irrational, superstitious barrier, and his predisposition was to defy”
― Andrew Hodges, Alan Turing: The Enigma

“He developed a particularly annoying way of ignoring the teaching during the term and then coming top in the examination.”
― Andrew Hodges, Alan Turing: The Enigma

“For him, breaking the Enigma was much easier than the problem of dealing with other people, especially with those holding power.”
― Andrew Hodges, Alan Turing: The Enigma