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“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

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“We all have our time machines, don't we. Those that take us back are memories...And those that carry us forward, are dreams.”
H.G. Wells

“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 It was not that he had ever rebelled, for he had only withdrawn; nor was it now a reconciliation, for he was still withdrawn.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

“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

“Perhaps this was the most surprising thing about Alan Turing. Despite all he had done in the war, and all the struggles with stupidity, he still did not think of intellectuals or scientists as forming a superior class.”
Andrew Hodges, Alan Turing: The Enigma

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