Christopher Morcom Quotes in The Imitation Game (2014)

Christopher Morcom: Sometimes it's the very people who no one imagines anything of who do the things no one can imagine.

Young Alan Turing: What's that you're reading?

Christopher Morcom: It's about cryptography.

Young Alan Turing: Like secret messages?

Christopher Morcom: Not secret. That's the brilliant part. Messages that anyone can see but no one knows what they mean, unless you have the key.

Young Alan Turing: How's that different from talking?

Christopher Morcom: Talking?

Young Alan Turing: 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. Only I never do. So... How's that different?

Christopher Morcom: Alan, I have a funny feeling you're going to be very good at this.