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diff --git a/Porting/epigraphs.pod b/Porting/epigraphs.pod index 0ad46d4acf..63b6a9a067 100644 --- a/Porting/epigraphs.pod +++ b/Porting/epigraphs.pod @@ -17,6 +17,32 @@ Consult your favorite dictionary for details. =head1 EPIGRAPHS +=head2 v5.19.3 - Andrew Hodges, "Alan Turing: The Enigma" + +L<Announced on 2013-08-20 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/08/msg206318.html> + +=over + +E.M. Forster, outdoing the King's heresy with grand bravura, had +written in 1938 that if he were faced with the choice between +betraying his country and betraying his friends, he hoped he would +have the courage to betray his country. He would always put the +personal above the political. But for Alan Turing, unlike Forster, or +Wittgenstein, or G.H. Hardy, it was more than a theoretical question. +For him not only had the personal become the political, but the +political was the personal. He had chosen and promised for himself in +working for the government. The choice for him therefore was that +between betraying one part of himself and betraying another part. And +however much he wavered between these alternatives, there was a solid +logic to the mind of security, one that could not be expected to take +an interest in notions of freedom and development. He had no rights +to such things, as he would have had to admit. He might have +outwitted the Home Guard, but when it came to questions that mattered, +there was no doubt that he had placed himself under military law. +There was a war on; there was always a war on now. + +=back + =head2 v5.19.2 - Fred Brooks, "The Mythical Man-Month" L<Announced on 2013-07-22 by Aristotle Pagaltzis|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/07/msg204905.html> |