雙語暢銷書《艾倫圖靈傳》第8章:水銀延時線(37)
This was not so much a report, as a plan of campaign in which tactical and strategic were jostling as close on paper as they did in his own mind.
The promise of an electronic 'brain' was as fanciful as space travel, and this report was like explaining the advantages of colonising Mars, while in next breath describing the design of a fuel pump.
"電子大腦"的願景，就像太空旅行一樣美好，這份報告首先描繪了火星開發的好處，轉而又開始講解如何設計燃料泵。The naive, colloquial style was not calculated to appeal to the authorities, and its detailed considerations went far beyond their absorptive capacities.
但遺憾的是，前面天真浪漫的講述方式，無法打動那些權威，然而後面精密的細節設計，卻又遠遠地超出了他們的理解能力。
No one was going to work through the example programs or the circuit diagrams, nor resolve the baldly stated paradox of a machine 'entirely without intelligence' nevertheless 'displaying intelligence'.
沒有人打算看完那些程序示例和電路圖，也沒有人能夠理解"完全不具有智能"的機器到底如何"表現出智能"。Even Hartree found it very hard going.
就連哈特里也覺得，這些東西實在太複雜了。Although undated, the ACE report was completed by the end of 1945,5representing an amazing burst of energy.
ACE報告於1945年底全部完成，這標誌着一股驚人的力量就要爆發了。It then went to Womersley, who wrote both a memorandum for Darwin and an introductory report for the Executive Committee meeting of 19 February 1946.
歷史將由沃默斯利來續寫，他向達爾文遞交了一份備忘錄，並向1946年12月19日的執行委員會會議遞交了一份引言報告。Womersley was quick to perceive the opportunities offered by a universal machine,
沃默斯利敏銳地嗅到了通用機器將會帶來的新機遇，and whatever the intellectual limitations noted by Alan and the other mathematicians, he certainly wrote an able defence of what he claimed as 'one of the best bargains the DSIR has ever made.'
他不顧圖靈反覆強調的侷限性，大膽地聲稱這將是"科學與工業研究部注有史以來最有價值的投資……'The possibilities inherent in this equipment are so tremendous that it is difficult to state a practical case out it sounding completely fantastic ...'
這種設備所帶來的可能性太豐富了，以至於我很難舉出一個不需要該設備的例子"。
