Good Lord! They're going to put that toilet trader Turing on the £50 note!
This, gentleman, is an outrage. I don't care what he did with numbers, he was bang to rights, the filthy little sodomite.
Quite b. The idea that the Turing Machine was an abstract computing device of
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Not when he was caught toilet trading there wasn't. Naturally one could turn a blind eye to these things in extremis, but not in perpetuity. No, I've no sympathy. Chemical castration was too good for him.
breathtaking genius is a common misconception. It was nothing more than a mechanical contraption he designed for the purpose of plunging a large wooden phallus into his bowels, leaving both hands free to tinker with his abacus.