Commonplace Blog

commonplace book. n. Formerly Book of common places (see commonplace n. 3). orig. A book in which ‘commonplaces’ or passages important for reference were collected, usually under general heads; hence, a book in which one records passages or matters to be especially remembered or referred to, with or without arrangement. OED Online. Oxford University Press, March 2015. Web. 5 April 2015.

commonplace blog. n A commonplace book in a blog.

Monday, July 13, 2015

Ordinary life not so simple for Turing

He had wanted the commonest in nature; he liked ordinary things. But he found himself to be an ordinary English homosexual atheist mathematician. It would not be easy.

Andrew Hodges, Alan Turing: The Enigma, Centenary Ed. (Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press, 2012), p. 115

Mary Whisner at 4:50 PM

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