Alan Turing – het wonder van 100 jaar geleden

“Thou­sands of peo­p­le have come together to demand jus­ti­ce for Alan Turing and recog­ni­ti­on of the appal­ling way he was tre­a­ted. Whi­le Turing was dealt with under the law of the time and we can’t put the clock back, his tre­at­ment was of cour­se utter­ly unfair and I am plea­sed to have the chan­ce to say how dee­ply sor­ry I and we all are for what hap­pe­ned to him … So on behalf of the Bri­tish govern­ment, and all tho­se who live freely thanks to Alan’s work I am very proud to say: we’­re sor­ry, you deser­ved so much better.” 

Pri­me Minis­ter Gor­don Brown, relea­sing a sta­te­ment on 10 Sep­tem­ber 2009, apo­lo­gi­sing and descri­bing the tre­at­ment of Turing as “appal­ling”.