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“Do you know why people like violence? It is because it feels good. Humans find violence deeply satisfying. But remove the satisfaction, and the act becomes... hollow.”
— Alan Turing, The Imitation Game
Tagged: Violence, Satisfying, Hollow, Satisfaction, humans
“Think of it. A digital computer. Electrical brain.”
— Alan Turing, The Imitation Game
Tagged: digital computer, electrical brain
“Was I God? No. Because God didn't win the war. We did.”
— Alan Turing, The Imitation Game
Tagged: God, War
“Advice about keeping secrets: it's a lot easier if you don't know them in the first place.”
— Alan Turing, The Imitation Game
Tagged: Secrets
“Even a broken clock is right twice a day.”
— Alan Turing, The Imitation Game
Tagged: broken clock
“Oh, Alan... we're gonna have such a wonderful war together.”
— Stewart Menzies, The Imitation Game
Tagged: War
“Sometimes it's the very people who no one imagines anything of who do the things no one can imagine.”
— Christopher Morcom, The Imitation Game
Tagged: unexpected
“Hardest time to lie to somebody is when they're expecting to be lied to.”
— Alan Turing, The Imitation Game
Tagged: lying
“Joan Clarke: Alan, what's happened?

Alan Turing: [pause] We can't be engaged anymore. Your parents need to take you back. Find you a husband elsewhere.

Joan Clarke: What's wrong with you?

Alan Turing: I have something to tell you. I'm... I'm a homosexual.

Joan Clarke: All right.

Alan Turing: No, no, men, Joan. Not women.

Joan Clarke: So what?

Alan Turing: I just told you...

Joan Clarke: So what? I had my suspicions. I always did. But we're not like other people. We love each other in our own way, and we can have the life together that we want. You won't be the perfect husband? I can promise you I harbored no intention of being the perfect wife. I'll not be fixing your lamb all day, while you come home from the office, will I? I'll work. You'll work. And we'll have each other's company. We'll have each other's minds. Sounds like a better marriage than most. Because I care for you. And you care for me. And we understand one another more than anyone else ever has.”
— Alan Turing, The Imitation Game
Tagged: Homosexual, Coming out, Homophobia, True Love
“Of course machines can't think as people do. A machine is different from a person. Hence, they think differently. The interesting question is, just because something, uh... thinks differently from you, does that mean it's not thinking? Well, we allow for humans to have such divergences from one another. You like strawberries, I hate ice-skating, you cry at sad films, I am allergic to pollen. What is the point of... different tastes, different... preferences, if not, to say that our brains work differently, that we think differently? And if we can say that about one another, then why can't we say the same thing for brains... built of copper and wire, steel?”
— Alan Turing, The Imitation Game
Tagged: Machines, Thinking, pollen, allergy, ice-skating
“Are you paying attention? Good. If you are not listening carefully, you will miss things. Important things. I will not pause, I will not repeat myself, and you will not interrupt me. You think that because you're sitting where you are, and I am sitting where I am, that you are in control of what is about to happen. You're mistaken. I am in control, because I know things that you do not know.”
— Alan Turing, The Imitation Game
Tagged: Paying Attention, Listening
“Alan Turing: I like solving problems, Commander. And Enigma is the most difficult problem in the world.

Commander Denniston: Enigma isn't difficult, it's impossible. The Americans, the Russians, the French, the Germans, everyone thinks Enigma is unbreakable.

Alan Turing: Good. Let me try and we'll know for sure, won't we?”
— Alan Turing, The Imitation Game
Tagged: Enigma, Americans, russians, french, Germans
“When people talk to each other, they never say what they mean. [pause] They say something else and you're expected to just know what they mean.”
— Alan Turing, The Imitation Game
Tagged: say what you mean
“Do you know why people like violence? It is because it feels good. Humans find violence deeply satisfying. But remove the satisfaction, and the act becomes... hollow.”
— Alan Turing, The Imitation Game
Tagged: Violence, Satisfaction, Hollow
“I know it's not ordinary. But who ever loved ordinary?”
— Joan Clarke, The Imitation Game
Tagged: Love, Exciting Love, sweet, Romantic
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