L’écart entre le véritable Alan Turing et le rôle que joue Benedict Cumberbatch est dérangeant parce que Turing, tout en étant à bien des égards une victime de son temps, ne s’était jamais vraiment considéré comme une victime. Il était très probablement un homme bien plus nuancé, contradictoire et complexe que le type désespéré, impuissant, tâtonna

was anxious about meeting Charlie. I always thought he’d be quite fierce and sarcastic and angry, and he’s not at all. He’s quite geeky and incredibly generous with his sense of humour. He clearly has a very sharp intellect, but he doesn’t need to be the funniest person in the room – he wants you to be as funny as he is. I’ve never laughed as much

Jody could hear just a smidgen of relief in his voice, the relief that comes when you know you’re talking to a mercurial billionaire who is as likely to be an unreasonable piece of shit as not, and you never know what you’re going to get until you have the conversation. Jody resented this reputation; he was never an asshole, he was merely exacting,

Wright was a genius but also a crank. If he wasn’t, he could never have had such original ideas.