31 Quotes by David Leavitt

The Man Who Knew Too Much: Alan Turing and the Invention of the Computer

You are not supposed to get it. It’s a paradox. All of mathematics is built on paradoxes. That’s the biggest paradox of all-all this orderliness, and at the heart, impossibility. Contradiction. Heaven built on the foundations of hell.

I think it’s very funny that someone would exaggerate to make himself look worse.

Real people have a way of banging against the doors you’ve closed; they know your name, your phone number. They live with you.