Turing worship

Having treated Turing terribly while he was alive, we now revere him as a true wonder. And beat ourselves up over our collective homophobia. Of course, had be been somewhat more aristocratic you could argue he would have escaped censure for his sexual orientation, so he was done as much for his class as his homosexuality. Nevertheless, I do love to read about Alan Turing. Take a look at this quote:-

"Alan could not stand social chat or what he was pleased to call “vapid conversation”. What he really liked was a thoroughly disputatious exchange of views. It was pretty tiring, really. You could take a safe bet that if you ventured on some self-evident proposition, as, for example, that the earth was round, Alan would produce a great deal of incontrovertible evidence to prove that it was almost certainly flat, ovular or much the same shape as a Siamese cat which had been boiled for fifteen minutes at a temperature of one thousand degrees Centigrade."

What a guy. Who wants vapid conversation and popular culture when you can scream at the tell and start an argument?