Friday 26 August 2011

Alan Turing: Like Socrates

A Centenary Celebration of the Life and Work of Alan Turing.

Strange now to think of you gone
One of the few people who is one of your actual geniuses.
If it wasn't for you and Tito we might have lost WW2.
Or not had computers and the internet.
Imagine a world without instant gay porn!
Bertrand Russell taught Ludwig Wittgenstein who taught Alan Turing...
They didn't get on; "You seem to be saying that if one uses a little common sense, one will not get into trouble."
Ah well, they say great things come in threes.
Like Socrates taught Plato who taught Aristotle.
Killed by The Man - maybes - for being a queer.
Like Socrates.
That's England's way of saying "Thank you".
The apple on your Apple maybes a tribute to the apple that killed him.
How strange Apple is now run by a fag.
Dat's progress!
I guess.

1 comment:

  1. I'm still reading the Andrew Hodges biography.
    I don't want it to end. :'(

    The story of him and his first teenage crush is absolutely heart-breaking and I sort of think it drove him to do everything that he went on to achieve...

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