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"Are you paying attention? Good. If you are not listening carefully, you will miss things. Important things. I will not pause, I will not repeat myself, and you will not interrupt me. You think that because you're sitting where you are, and I am sitting where I am, that you are in control of what is about to happen. You're mistaken. I am in control because I know things that you do not know. [pause] What I will need from you now is a commitment. You will listen closely, and you will not judge me until I am finished. If you cannot commit to this, then please leave the room. But if you choose to stay, remember you chose to be here. What happens from this moment forward is not my responsibility. It's yours. Pay attention."
"Some people thought we were at war with the Germans— incorrect. We were at war with the clock. Britain was literally starving to death. The Americans sent over 100,000 pounds of food each week, and every week the Germans would send our desperately needed bread to the bottom of the ocean. Our daily failure was announced at the chimes of midnight. And the sound would haunt our unwelcome dreams."
"Do you know why people like violence? It is because it feels good. Humans find violence deeply satisfying. But remove the satisfaction, and the act becomes... hollow."
"When people talk to each other, they never say what they mean. They say something else and you're expected to just know what they mean."
"Was I God? No. Because God didn't win the war. We did."
"Think of it. A digital computer. Electrical brain."
"Of course machines can't think as people do. A machine is different from a person. Hence, they think differently. The interesting question is, just because something thinks differently from you, does that mean it's not thinking?"
"Sometimes it is the people no one imagines anything of who do the things no one can imagine."
"Heil Hitler. Turns out that's the only German you need to know to break Enigma."
"No one normal could have done that. Do you know, this morning... I was on a train that went through a city that wouldn't exist if it wasn't for you. I bought a ticket from a man who would likely be dead if it wasn't for you. I read up on my work... a whole field of scientific inquiry that only exists because of you. Now, if you wish you could have been normal... I can promise you I do not. The world is an infinitely better place precisely because you weren't."
"I know it's not ordinary. But who ever loved ordinary?"
"Headmaster: [to a young Alan, about his note-passing] You and your friend solve maths problems during maths class because the maths class is too dull?"
"Christopher Morcom: Sometimes it is the people no one imagines anything of who do the things no one can imagine."
"Alastair Denniston: Double agents are such bastards. Isolated loners. No attachments to friends or family. Arrogant. Know anybody like that?"
"Stewart Menzies: Oh, Alan... we're gonna have such a wonderful war together."
"End titles: His machine was never perfected, though it generated a whole field of research into what became known as "Turing Machines". Today we call them "computers" (Above quote corrected): Historians estimate that breaking enigma shortened the war by more than two years saving over 14 million lives. It remained a government-held secret for more than 50 years. Turing's work inspired generations of research into what scientists called "TURING MACHINES," Today we call them computers."
"Benedict Cumberbatch - Alan Turing"
"Keira Knightley - Joan Clarke"
"Matthew Goode - Hugh Alexander"
"Mark Strong - Maj. Gen. Stewart Menzies"
"Charles Dance - Cdr. Alastair Denniston"
"Allen Leech - John Cairncross"
"Matthew Beard - Peter Hilton"
"Rory Kinnear - Detective Robert Nock"
"Alex Lawther - Young Turing"
"Jack Bannon - Christopher Morcom"
"Victoria Wicks - Dorothy Clarke"
"David Charkham - William Kemp Lowther Clarke"
"Tuppence Middleton - Helen"
"James Northcote - Jack Good"
"Steven Waddington - Supt Smith"
"Behind every code is an enigma."
"A top-secret life."
"You do not know this man. Yet he has changed our lives."
"Unlock the secret. Win the war."
"The true enigma was the man who cracked the code."
"Sometimes it’s the people no one imagines anything of who do the things that no one can imagine."
Young though he was, his radiant energy produced such an impression of absolute reliability that Hedgewar made him the first sarkaryavah, or general secretary, of the RSS.
- Gopal Mukund Huddar
Largely because of the influence of communists in London, Huddar's conversion into an enthusiastic supporter of the fight against fascism was quick and smooth. The ease with which he crossed from one worldview to another betrays the fact that he had not properly understood the world he had grown in.
Huddar would have been 101 now had he been alive. But then centenaries are not celebrated only to register how old so and so would have been and when. They are usually celebrated to explore how much poorer our lives are without them. Maharashtrian public life is poorer without him. It is poorer for not having made the effort to recall an extraordinary life.
I regret I was not there to listen to Balaji Huddar's speech [...] No matter how many times you listen to him, his speeches are so delightful that you feel like listening to them again and again.
By the time he came out of Franco's prison, Huddar had relinquished many of his old ideas. He displayed a worldview completely different from that of the RSS, even though he continued to remain deferential to Hedgewar and maintained a personal relationship with him.