‘This chap would do well enough. Not a real beauty, but had a certain appeal. Beggars couldn’t be choosers.’
‘Eric with his pansying and his pretty-pretty dolls face could get them as easy as looking’
Quotations from Alan Turing’s short story known as ‘Pryce’s Buoy’
The 5th and 6th pages of Alan Turing's unfinished and unpublished short story known as ‘Pryce’s Buoy’. © King’s College, Cambridge
A startling new study of a little-known, unpublished short story by Alan Turing challenges our understanding of the man who played a key role in cracking the Nazi’s Enigma code, developed the theoretical underpinning of the first computers, and laid the groundwork for the development of artificial intelligence.
