Put Alan Turing on the next £10 note:

Turing over Darwin? Not. A. Chance.

Maybe he could replace Fry or Smith (who's a foreign national) though.

I'd also like to see a return of the Bard!
 
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Is it true that the inspiration for the Apple logo came from Alan Turing? Apparently he committed suicide by eating an apple laced with cyanide.
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No. It was to denote Isacc Newton sitting under a tree. It had a bite out of it so that people would know it's an apple and not a tomato. And one of the other reasons they are called Apple - is because Jobs wanted them ahead of "Atari" in the phone books/listings.
 
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cork-spotters said:
Is it true that the inspiration for the Apple logo came from Alan Turing? Apparently he committed suicide by eating an apple laced with cyanide.
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No.

Steve Jobs was once asked and he said he wished he'd thought of that as the reason xD

Direct from the mouth of Wozniak:
http://9to5mac.com/2010/11/21/woz-explains-why-apple-is-called-apple/

I think it was a similar story in the biog, but can't quite remember it off the top of my head. But yeah, Jobs spent a lot of his younger life living/working in orchards., and was on a fruit only diet.

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I just don't think Turing should go on a bank note. There are more prominent people more deserving of a place.

I don't have an issue with Turing on there - I just think we have more deserving historical figures.
 
We currently have the following people

£5 Elizabeth Fry - One of the great philanthorpists from Banking
£10 Charles Darwin - We all know exactly who he is
£20 Adam Smith - Father of modern economics
£50 Matthew Boulton and James Watt - Prominent Engineers and "fathers of modern coinage"

I think there is an argument to remove Darwin and replace with a figure from associated with the world of finance. George Peabody would be my personal choice.
 
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