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“The body provides something for the spirit to look after and use.”
Computing pioneer Alan Turing on love and loss:
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The Most Generous Book in the World – a heartening illustrated homage to the wives, mothers, brothers, benefactors, and other quiet champions behind some of history’s most celebrated creative geniuses: George Washington’s dentist, Alan Turing’s teenage crush, Emily Dickinson’s dog, Alfred Hitchcock’s wife, Roald Dahl’s mother, and more.
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“He might ask you … whether you think a computer could ever enjoy strawberries and cream or could make you fall in love with it.”
An uncommon portrait of Alan Turing, godfather of modern computing.