The Imitation Game Quotes

Hardest time to lie to somebody is when they’re expecting to be lied to.

Even a broken clock is right twice a day.

Sometimes we can’t do what feels good. We have to do what is logical.

Sometimes it is the very people who no one imagines anything of who do the things no one can imagine.[to Alan]

When people talk to each other, they never say what they mean. They say something else, and you’re expected to just know what they mean.

I know it isn’t ordinary. But who ever loved ordinary?[to Alan]

Do you know, this morning I was on a train that went through a city that wouldn’t exist if it wasn’t for you. I bought a ticket from a man who would likely be dead if it wasn’t for you. I read up, on my work, a whole field of scientific inquiry that only exists because of you. Now, if you wish you could have been normal… I can promise you I do not. The world is an infinitely better place precisely because you weren’t.[to Alan]

Do you know why people like violence? It is because it feels good. Humans find violence deeply satisfying. But remove the satisfaction, and the act becomes hollow.

Codes are a puzzle. A game, just like any other game.

We’re not like other people. We love each other in our own way, and we can have the life together that we want.[to Alan]

Of course machines can’t think as people do. A machine is different from a person. Hence, they think differently. The interesting question is, just because something thinks differently from you, does that mean it’s not thinking?[to Detective Robert Nock]

Advice about keeping secrets. It’s a lot easier if you don’t know them in the first place.