I expect to lie in the sun, talk French and modern Greek, and make love, though the sex and nationality... has yet to be decided: in fact it is quite possible that this item will be altogether omitted.
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"I do not wish to give the impression that I think there is no mystery about consciousness. There is, for instance, something of a paradox connected with any attempt to localize it."
"There are many questions which we shall have to answer, for example, what is the nature of consciousness?"
"The computer is a universal simulator."
"If a machine can pass the Turing Test, then it is intelligent."
"Machines take me by surprise with great frequency."
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Turing describes vacation plans with dry, self-deprecating wit: he'll sunbathe, practice languages, and maybe find romance — but the gender and nationality of any partner remain gloriously undecided, and the whole romantic enterprise might simply not happen at all. It's a wry, hedged admission of life's uncertainties around love, delivered with the precision of someone who treats even personal desire as a variable yet to be assigned a value.
Turing was gay in an era when British law criminalized it. In 1952 he was convicted of 'gross indecency' and chemically castrated by court order. The deliberate ambiguity of 'sex...has yet to be decided' is both a private joke and a survival mechanism — his homosexuality whispered through plausible deniability. His characteristic mode was to treat the most charged personal realities with mathematical detachment and dark, precise humor rather than sentiment.
Post-WWII Britain intensified persecution of gay men; the Labouchere Amendment made same-sex acts criminal, and security services actively purged gay men from sensitive roles. Turing had helped win the war by cracking Enigma, yet the state prosecuted him in 1952. Speaking openly about a same-sex partner was dangerous. This quote dates to that period — coded language and ironic vagueness were not affectation but genuine protection against arrest and social destruction.
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