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In addition to essentially inventing the computer, Alan Turing also broke the German Enigma Code during World War II which paved the way for the D-Day invasion. The man was a hyper-genius. I’ve read descriptions of his work by mathematical physicist Sir Roger Penrose. He’s been a hero of mine ever since.

The level of thought required to come up with the stuff he came up with is totally beyond my comprehension. I actually did not even know about his orientation until much later. He was prosecuted and ordered to undergo chemical castration. Soon thereafter, he committed suicide by eating a cyanide-laced apple.

The government forced him to take estrogen as a punishment (or “cure”?). He began to develop breasts and other side effects.

He committed suicide by biting into a cyanide laced apple. This is supposedly the inspiration for the name/logo of Apple computers.

omfg

omfg

and old Apple computers

the apple was a rainbow 

Reblogging again because more people need to know about Turing dammit.

Oh, well then.

It is personal policy to always reblog Alan Turing when he is on my dash. He gave us the world and all this world ever gave him was suffering.

Also, I’m not going to correct this post because it’s already been done. Turing was already pretty f**ked up from hormonal therapy by the time he finally killed himself. We must never forget this brave man and everything he went through to serve us up the entire modern world as we know it.

Godammit wrong blog again.