Showing posts with label Alan Turing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Alan Turing. Show all posts

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