“Sometimes it is the people no one imagines anything of, who do the things no one imagines.”
Permalink: Alan Turing
About this quote
Turing used the sentence to open his paper on morphogenesis, which he published before the machines he went on to build were finished. It is a remark about how originality is distributed, made by someone who had every reason to expect to be doubted.
Source: The Chemical Basis of Morphogenesis, 1952