“I would rather be the hammer than the anvil”
“Tell people the hammered truth, and it will ring like steel against an anvil.”
Source: The Floating Island
“6075. When you are Anvil, hold you still;
When you are Hammer, strike your Fill.”
Compare Poor Richard's Almanack (1758) : When you're an Anvil, hold you still, When you're a Hammer, strike your Fill.
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“334. When you are an anvill, hold you still; when you are a hammer, strike your fill.”
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
“The process of breaking the code was enormously complicated in real life.”
As quoted in "Interview: Morten Tyldum, Graham Moore of The Imitation Game" by PatrickMcD at Hollywood Chicago (11 December 2014)
Context: What is amazing about the story is that the most fantastic things that occur, that people most don't believe, are absolutely true — like the Soviet mole that they allowed to operate within British war intelligence — that was all true. … We condensed the timeline, essentially. The process of breaking the code was enormously complicated in real life. So one of things we wanted to do was open up Turing's story to the audience and make a film about these complicated topics, but at the same time create a narrative that the audience understands, without insulting their intelligence. But the on a broad conceptual level, everything is true.
Source: Academy Series - Priscilla "Hutch" Hutchins, Odyssey (2006), Chapter 41 (p. 383)
Song lyrics, Lionheart (1978)
“I always wanted to have Mike Mazurki play Hammer… too bad he couldn't act.”
Crime Time interview (2001)
