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If you are reading this, be thankful to Alan Turing

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56 years ago, one of the brightest minds in human history committed suicide. He was chemically castrated according to the laws of the leading democracy in the Western World. An avid athlete, he died as an obese man, as a side effect of oestrogen injections he received. He died, because he was doing, what makes everyone happy. Loving another human being. It took 55 years for this "leading democracy" to apoligise. His name was Alan Turing, and if you are reading these sentences, you should be thankful to him. 

The coolest citation

[33] DYLAN , Bob. Blonde on blonde, record album produced by Bob Johnston, Columbia Records, New York, March 1966, Columbia C2S 841. Anyone who touched computer science territory knows Donald Knuth. In addition to being a founder of Complexity theory, he is also the author of the popular -even ubiquitous- Tex academic typesetting environment. He is also known for his professional humour. His paper on the use of once popular "go to" statements opens up with three quotations. One is a title of one of my favourite Dylan songs. "You will go your way, I'll go mine." This is by far the coolest citation I've read in a scientific paper.