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To: Citizen Zed

got it.....like most geniuses, he was an odd duck.

The savant who designed the code breaking equipment for the German Enigma machine was gay.....which I thought of as a way of analogy.

And I’m damned glad that guy was on our side in WW2.


21 posted on 07/06/2015 2:11:25 PM PDT by C. Edmund Wright
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To: C. Edmund Wright

You mean

Alan Turing, and one wonders how many allied lives his (homosexual) mind saved?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bletchley_Park#Personnel


35 posted on 07/06/2015 2:49:46 PM PDT by truth_seeker (come with the outlws.)
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