The Imitation Game Quotes
Hugh Alexander: Love will make a man do strange things, I suppose.
Alan Turing: In this case, love just lost Germany the whole bloody war!
Alan Turing: In this case, love just lost Germany the whole bloody war!
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John Cairncross: What's wrong?
Alan Turing: What if... what if I don't fancy being with Joan in that way?
John Cairncross: Because you're a homosexual? I suspected.
Alan Turing: Sh- should I tell her that I've had affairs with men?
John Cairncross: You know, in my admittedly limited experience, women tend to be a bit touchy about accidentally marrying homosexuals. Perhaps not spreading this information about might be in your best interest.
Alan Turing: I care for her, I truly do, but... I-I just don't know if I can pretend...
John Cairncross: You can't tell anyone, Alan. It's illegal. And Denniston is looking for any excuse he can to put you away.
Alan Turing: I know.
John Cairncross: This has to stay a secret.
Alan Turing: What if... what if I don't fancy being with Joan in that way?
John Cairncross: Because you're a homosexual? I suspected.
Alan Turing: Sh- should I tell her that I've had affairs with men?
John Cairncross: You know, in my admittedly limited experience, women tend to be a bit touchy about accidentally marrying homosexuals. Perhaps not spreading this information about might be in your best interest.
Alan Turing: I care for her, I truly do, but... I-I just don't know if I can pretend...
John Cairncross: You can't tell anyone, Alan. It's illegal. And Denniston is looking for any excuse he can to put you away.
Alan Turing: I know.
John Cairncross: This has to stay a secret.
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Stewart Menzies: Why are you telling me this ?
Alan Turing: We need your help, to keep this a secret from Admiralty, Army, RAF. Ah... as no one can know, that we've broken enigma, not even [Commander]
Alan Turing: Dennison
Stewart Menzies: Who's in the process of having you fired ?
Joan Clarke: You can take care of that.
Alan Turing: While we develop a system to help you determine how much intelligence to act on. Which ahh attacks to stop, which to let through. Statistical analysis, the minimum number of actions it will take, for us to win the war - but the maximum number we can take, before the Germans get suspicious
Stewart Menzies: And you're going to trust of this all to statistics ? To maths ?
Alan Turing: Correct.
Joan Clarke: And then MI6 can come up with the lies we will tell everyone else
Alan Turing: You'll need a believable alternative source for all the pieces of information that you use
Joan Clarke: A false story, so that we can explain how we got our information, that has nothing to do with Enigma, and then you can leak those stories to the Germans
Alan Turing: And then to our own military
Stewart Menzies: Maintain a conspiracy of lies at the very highest levels of govt ?... Sounds right up my alley.
Alan Turing: We need your help, to keep this a secret from Admiralty, Army, RAF. Ah... as no one can know, that we've broken enigma, not even [Commander]
Alan Turing: Dennison
Stewart Menzies: Who's in the process of having you fired ?
Joan Clarke: You can take care of that.
Alan Turing: While we develop a system to help you determine how much intelligence to act on. Which ahh attacks to stop, which to let through. Statistical analysis, the minimum number of actions it will take, for us to win the war - but the maximum number we can take, before the Germans get suspicious
Stewart Menzies: And you're going to trust of this all to statistics ? To maths ?
Alan Turing: Correct.
Joan Clarke: And then MI6 can come up with the lies we will tell everyone else
Alan Turing: You'll need a believable alternative source for all the pieces of information that you use
Joan Clarke: A false story, so that we can explain how we got our information, that has nothing to do with Enigma, and then you can leak those stories to the Germans
Alan Turing: And then to our own military
Stewart Menzies: Maintain a conspiracy of lies at the very highest levels of govt ?... Sounds right up my alley.
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Peter Hilton: You're not God, Alan. You don't get to decide who lives and who dies.
Alan Turing: Yes, yes we do.
Peter Hilton: Why? Why?
Alan Turing: Because we're the only ones who can.
Alan Turing: Yes, yes we do.
Peter Hilton: Why? Why?
Alan Turing: Because we're the only ones who can.
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Detective Robert Nock: Mr Turing, can I tell you a secret?
Alan Turing: I'm quite good with those.
Detective Robert Nock: I'm here to help you.
Alan Turing: Oh, clearly!
Detective Robert Nock: Can machines think?
Alan Turing: Oh, so you've read some of my published works?
Detective Robert Nock: What makes you say that?
Alan Turing: Oh, because I'm sitting in a police station, accused of entreating a young man to touch my penis, and you've just asked me if machines can think.
Detective Robert Nock: Well, can they? Could machines ever think as human beings do?
Alan Turing: Most people say not.
Detective Robert Nock: You're not most people.
Alan Turing: I'm quite good with those.
Detective Robert Nock: I'm here to help you.
Alan Turing: Oh, clearly!
Detective Robert Nock: Can machines think?
Alan Turing: Oh, so you've read some of my published works?
Detective Robert Nock: What makes you say that?
Alan Turing: Oh, because I'm sitting in a police station, accused of entreating a young man to touch my penis, and you've just asked me if machines can think.
Detective Robert Nock: Well, can they? Could machines ever think as human beings do?
Alan Turing: Most people say not.
Detective Robert Nock: You're not most people.
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Title Card: After a year of government-mandated hormonal therapy, Alan Turing committed suicide on June 7th, 1954.He was 41 years old. Between 1995 and 1967, approximately 49,000 homosexual men were convicted of gross indecency under British law. In 2013, Queen Elizabeth II granted Turing a posthumous royal pardon, honoring his unprecedented achievements.
Title Card: 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.
Title Card: 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.
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Hugh Alexander: Because there's nothing like a friend's engagement to make a woman want to do something that she'll later regret with the fiancÚ's better looking chum.
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Hugh Alexander: You know to pull off this irascible genius routine, one has to actually be a genius.
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Commander Denniston: Well, you realize that six hundred miles away from London there's this nasty little chap called Hitler who wants to engulf Europe in tyranny.
Alan Turing: Politics isn't really my area of expertise.
Alan Turing: Politics isn't really my area of expertise.
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Hugh Alexander: [reading a decrypted message]... is directed to 53 degrees 24 minutes north and aufpunkt one degree west.
Hugh Alexander: Heil Hitler.
Alan Turing: Turns out that's the only German you need to know to break Enigma.
Hugh Alexander: Heil Hitler.
Alan Turing: Turns out that's the only German you need to know to break Enigma.
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Headmaster: [grilling young Alan about note-passing]You and your friend solve maths problems during maths class because the maths class is too dull?
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Young Alan Turing: What's that you're reading?
Christopher Morcom: It's about cryptography.
Young Alan Turing: Like secret messages?
Christopher Morcom: Not secret. That's the brilliant part. Messages that anyone can see but no one knows what they mean, unless you have the key.
Young Alan Turing: How's that different from talking?
Christopher Morcom: Talking?
Young Alan Turing: 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. Only I never do. So... How's that different?
Christopher Morcom: Alan, I have a funny feeling you're going to be very good at this.
Christopher Morcom: It's about cryptography.
Young Alan Turing: Like secret messages?
Christopher Morcom: Not secret. That's the brilliant part. Messages that anyone can see but no one knows what they mean, unless you have the key.
Young Alan Turing: How's that different from talking?
Christopher Morcom: Talking?
Young Alan Turing: 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. Only I never do. So... How's that different?
Christopher Morcom: Alan, I have a funny feeling you're going to be very good at this.
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Alan Turing: Some people thought we were at war with the Germans. Incorrect. We were at war with the clock.
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Alan Turing: You can't leave, I won't let you.
Joan Clarke: I'll miss you. That's what a normal person would say in this situation.
Alan Turing: I-I don't care what is normal!
Joan Clarke: What am I supposed to do, Alan? I will not give up my parents.
Alan Turing: You have an opportunity here to make some actual use of your life!
Joan Clarke: [offended]And end up like you? No thanks. I'm sorry you're lonely. But Enigma will not save you. Can you decipher that, you fragile narcissist? Or would you like me to fetch your beloved Christopher to help?
Joan Clarke: I'll miss you. That's what a normal person would say in this situation.
Alan Turing: I-I don't care what is normal!
Joan Clarke: What am I supposed to do, Alan? I will not give up my parents.
Alan Turing: You have an opportunity here to make some actual use of your life!
Joan Clarke: [offended]And end up like you? No thanks. I'm sorry you're lonely. But Enigma will not save you. Can you decipher that, you fragile narcissist? Or would you like me to fetch your beloved Christopher to help?
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Commander Denniston: Have you ever won a war, Turing? I have. You know how it's done? Discipline, order, chain of command. You're not at university any more, you're a very small cog in a very large system. And you will do as your commanding officer instructs.
Alan Turing: Who - who is your commanding officer?
Commander Denniston: Winston Churchill. Number 10 Downing Street, London SW1. You have a problem with my decision, you can take it up with him.
Alan Turing: Who - who is your commanding officer?
Commander Denniston: Winston Churchill. Number 10 Downing Street, London SW1. You have a problem with my decision, you can take it up with him.
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Alan Turing: [voiceover]There were 159 million, million, million possible Enigma settings. All we had to do was try each one. But if we had ten men checking one setting a minute for 24 hours every day and seven days every week, how many days do you think it would take to check each of the settings? Well it's not days, it's years. It's 20 *million* years. To stop a coming attack, we would have to check 20 million years' worth of settings in 20 minutes.
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Alan Turing: Sometimes we can't do what feels good. We have to do what is logical
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Joan Clarke: [to a convalescing Alan]Why don't we do a crossword puzzle? It'll only take us five minutes. Or in your case, six.
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Peter Hilton: All my friends, they're making a difference while we just wile away our days, producing nothing! Because of you.
Alan Turing: My machine... will work.
Alan Turing: My machine... will work.
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Alan Turing: I'm not a spy. I'm... I'm just a mathematician.
Stewart Menzies: I know a lot of spies, Alan. You've got more secrets than the best of them.
Stewart Menzies: I know a lot of spies, Alan. You've got more secrets than the best of them.
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Stewart Menzies: Burn everything.
Hugh Alexander: Burn? Why?
Stewart Menzies: You were told when you started this was a Top Secret program. Did you think we were joking?
Hugh Alexander: But the war is over.
Stewart Menzies: *This* war is. But there'Il be others.
Alan Turing: And we know how to break a code that everybody else believes is unbreakable.
Stewart Menzies: Precisely. Tear it down, light it up. Sweep away the ashes. None of you have ever met before. None of you have ever even heard the word Enigma. Have a safe trip home.
Stewart Menzies: [as they rise to go]Behave. With a bit of luck, you'll never have to see me or one another again for the rest of your lives...
Hugh Alexander: Burn? Why?
Stewart Menzies: You were told when you started this was a Top Secret program. Did you think we were joking?
Hugh Alexander: But the war is over.
Stewart Menzies: *This* war is. But there'Il be others.
Alan Turing: And we know how to break a code that everybody else believes is unbreakable.
Stewart Menzies: Precisely. Tear it down, light it up. Sweep away the ashes. None of you have ever met before. None of you have ever even heard the word Enigma. Have a safe trip home.
Stewart Menzies: [as they rise to go]Behave. With a bit of luck, you'll never have to see me or one another again for the rest of your lives...
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Joan Clarke: Are you trying to build your universal machine? [Alan looks puzzled]
Joan Clarke: I read your paper at university.
Alan Turing: Is it already being taught?
Joan Clarke: Oh no! I was precocious.
Joan Clarke: I read your paper at university.
Alan Turing: Is it already being taught?
Joan Clarke: Oh no! I was precocious.
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