David Lagercrantz Quotes

Turing was a quite brilliant mathematician, most famous for his work on breaking the German Enigma codes. It is no exaggeration to say that, without his outstanding contribution, the history of the Second World War could have been very different.

I had been a lifelong Alan Turing obsessive. Among incredibly nerdy teenagers, without a lot of friends, Alan Turing was always this luminary figure we'd all look up to.

No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration.

I had first heard about Alan Turing when I was a teenager. I've known about him since I was a kid, and I always wanted to write about him.

Alan Turing is so important to me and to the world, and his story is so important to be told, so it was a big thing to take up, and I was a little petrified. Like, who am I to write the Alan Turing story? He's one of the great geniuses of the 20th century - who was horribly persecuted for being gay - and I'm a kid from Chicago.

Among tech-minded kids, I think Alan Turing was a tremendous inspiration. He was a guy that was so different than the people around him. He was an outsider in his own time, but because he was an outsider is precisely why he was able to accomplish things nobody thought was possible.

There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

Genius is talent set on fire by courage.

Alan Turing, to me, always felt like an outsider's outsider.

Young men and young women, full of courage, originality, and genius, are everywhere to be met with.

Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.

Software is a great combination between artistry and engineering.

No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.

The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.

Genius is initiative on fire.

It was one of those great miracles of history that they managed to smuggle an Enigma machines out to Britain just before they were invaded by the Nazis.

The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.

Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing.

Almost all the noblest things that have been achieved in the world, have been achieved by poor men; poor scholars, poor professional men, poor artisans and artists, poor philosophers, poets, and men of genius.

Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.

Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.

Some of the most brilliant things that someone might do could happen in three minutes because it's something that just occurs to them. And then, there's the example of really chipping away at something to create something great. I don't believe that one is more reliable than the other.

I thought I knew who Alan Turing was. I've always loved history, and I was actually shocked by how little I actually knew. I was amazed this wasn't common knowledge. Why wasn't he on the front covers of my history books? He's one of the great thinkers of the last century, and he was sort of pushed into the shadows.

Trying to explain Turing's work in encryption and decryption? It's complicated.

'The Imitation Game' is a very British film.