Alan Turing: I like solving problems, Commander. And Enigma is the most difficult problem in the world. Commander Denniston: Enigma isn't difficult, it's impossible. The Americans, the Russians, the French, the Germans, everyone thinks Enigma is unbr...
There is a law of the natural worlds (the spiritual and the physical) and this is something I have understood: that for every genuine existence, for every real manifestation and occurrence, there are are ten thousand falsities. Before you meet what o...
All art is but imitation of nature.
To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.
Imitation is obviously a great form of flattery.
I couldn't imitate anyone if I wanted to.
The worst acting is about imitation.
A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
It is better to imitate ancient than modern work.
It happens very often that those whom men esteem highly are more seriously endangered by their own excessive confidence. Hence, for many it is better not to be too free from temptations, but often to be tried lest they become too secure, too filled w...
God hath thus ordered it, that we may learn to bear one another’s burdens; for no man is without fault, no man without his burden, no man sufficient of himself, no man wise enough of himself; but we ought to bear with one another, comfort one anoth...
If you cannot recollect yourself continuously, do so once a day at least, in the morning or in the evening. In the morning make a resolution and in the evening examine yourself on what you have said this day, what you have done and thought, for in th...
He is not truly patient who will only suffer as far as seems right to him and from whom he pleases. The truly patient man considers not by whom he is tried, one above him, or by an equal, or by an inferior, whether by a good and holy man or by a perv...
The verb 'to darn' is explained in my pocket dictionary as follows: 'To mend by imitating the texture of the stuff, with thread and needle.' But this definition does not correspond to the work accomplished by good Chinese housewives. When they mend a...
But once an original book has been written-and no more than one or two appear in a century-men of letters imitate it, in other words, they copy it so that hundreds of thousands of books are published on exactly the same theme, with slightly different...
Stewart Menzies: Mr Turing, do you know how many people have died because of Enigma? Alan Turing: No, I don't. Stewart Menzies: Three. Alan Turing: Three? Stewart Menzies: While we've been having this conversation. Stewart Menzies: [he looks at his w...
In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.
Posterity weaves no garlands for imitators.
Art begins in imitation and ends in innovation.
The best imitation in the world is not half as good as a poor original.
