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here’s a toast to Alan Turing born in harsher, darker times who thought outside the container and loved outside the lines and so the code-breaker was broken and we’re sorry yes now the s-word has been spoken the official conscience woken – very carefully scripted but at least it’s not encrypted – and the story does suggest a part 2 to the Turing Test: 1. can machines behave like humans? 2. can we?
— Matt Harvey
Tags: wwii, uk, turing, poetry, history, glbt, gay, cs, cryptography
Archbishop. Why do I never read the lesson?” “I beg your pardon, ma’am?” “In church. Everybody else gets to read and one never does. It’s not laid down, is it? It’s not off-limits?” “Not that I’m aware, ma’am.” “Good. Well in that case I’m going to start. Leviticus, here I come. Goodnight.” The archbishop shook his head and went back to Strictly Come Dancing.
— Alan Bennett The Uncommon Reader
Tags: uk, the-queen, books-reading, books
A good proportion of foreign nationals in jobs in the UK are in semi or low-skilled occupations.
— Iain Duncan Smith
Tags: foreign, uk, jobs, proportion, good
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