"But where he ends up is the idea of a universal machine that computes, essentially can take different software and execute different jobs. We don’t have a different computer to connect to the internet than we do to write papers. It’s one machine and one piece of hardware. But it can do all of this huge variety of tasks. And so, he really does invent the computer, essentially. And famously, he uses that thinking in a very primitive form in the war effort where he’s recruited to help break the German enigma code, which is heavily encrypted and largely believed to be uncrackable code. And people believe that Turing and his very small group actually turned the tide of the war in favor of the allies, precisely by using a combination of this thinking and just sheer ingenuity and some luck."

"I think, so much. I don’t want to promote the trite trope of the mad genius, if you’re brilliant, you are insane. I don’t think that. I don’t think if your insane, you’re brilliant. But I do think somebody who’s very brilliant, who also chooses not to go for regular gratification in life, they don’t go for money. They don’t necessarily value creature comforts. They not leveraging for fame. They’re really after something different. I think that can lead to a kind of runaway instability actually, Sometimes. They’re already outside of social norms. They’re already outside of normal connections with people. They’ve already made that break, and I think that makes them more vulnerable."

"I think it’s impossible to predict. There has been real progress and the progress, as we’ve said, comes from the childlike curiosity of saying, “Well, I don’t actually understand this. I’m going to keep leaning on it because I don’t understand it.” And then suddenly you realize nobody really understood it."