“Sometimes it is the people no one can imagine, do the things no one can imagine.” – Alan Turing What story lies behind this quote? For me, it is not just a simple life story. It is the prideful story of the man who saved the world! So, now I’m going to talk about Alan Turing- founder of computer science, philosopher, mathematician, code breaker, and the culpable, guilty person of his time! Let’s begin! Alan Mathison Turing was born in England. He had signs of high intelligence since his childhood; especially he was interested in Science and Math. Because of the fact that he was smarter than others, his classmates always isolated him from their surroundings. The only …show more content…
But being an atheist was not only thing that Alan was blamed for. The unacceptable thing was that – Alan did not love Christopher only like a friend: He was homosexual and Chris was his first love. It was illegal at that time. Therefore, Alan had to hide this fact. He continued studying and at the end he received his PhD for mathematics and cryptology. Alan was teaching at a college, but when the World War II started, he enrolled to the Code-Breaking Organization in Bletchley …show more content…
He was homosexual and atheist and it was unacceptable for that time, right, but what about his success? It is unacceptable, as well? For me, these qualities do not define anyone’s humanity. Humanity is the first, and everything that he did was done for the benefits of mankind. People judged him due to his personality and made him kill himself. It was not the thing that the guy who saved the millions of life had to deserve! Having unacceptable characteristics for most people, does not mean that you cannot be the man who saved the world! I think, we need to first consider the fact that, maybe just because of him history went differently; maybe just because of his ideas about computers we now have computers that sometimes even smarter than