Andrew Hodges Quotes

#1. One is perhaps too inclined to think only of him alive at some future time when we shall meet him again; but it is really so much more helpful to think of him as just separated from us for the present.

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#2. uncomputable numbers

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#3. For him, breaking the Enigma was much easier than the problem of dealing with other people, especially with those holding power.

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#4. Alan Turing, however, cared nothing for the opinion of society, and therefore was ahead of his time in laying bare the role of the state.

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#5. The separation between any two events in the history of a particle shall be a maximum or minimum when measured along its world line.

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#6. He also liked to root around in sales and street markets, and picked up a violin in London, on Farringdon Road, for which he took some lessons.

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#7. His machines - soon to be called Turing machines - offered a bridge, a connection between abstract symbols and the physical world.

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#8. The opening of a public debate about male homosexuality in Britain in 1952 was the conflict of the small back room, in another sphere.

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