The Imitation Game - Imagined Potential and Unlikely Alliances
Headmaster: [to a young Alan, about his note-passing]
You and your friend solve maths problems during maths class because the maths class is too dull?
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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