Memorable Quotes from Jack Bannon
2 quotesThe Consequences of Being Different
Alan Turing
They only beat me up because I'm smarter than they are.
Christopher Morcom
No, they beat you up because you're different.
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Imagined Potential and Unlikely Alliances
Headmaster
You and your friend solve maths problems during maths class because the maths class is too dull?
[to a young Alan, about his note-passing]
Christopher Morcom
Sometimes it is the people no one imagines anything of who do the things no one can imagine.
Alastair Denniston
Double agents are such bastards. Isolated loners. No attachments to friends or family. Arrogant. Know anybody like that?
Stewart Menzies
Oh, Alan... we're gonna have such a wonderful war together.
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His machine was never perfected, though it generated a whole field of research into what became known as "Turing Machines". Today we call them "computers" (Above quote corrected): Historians estimate that breaking enigma shortened the war by more than two years saving over 14 million lives. It remained a government-held secret for more than 50 years. Turing's work inspired generations of research into what scientists called "TURING MACHINES," Today we call them computers.
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