"I'm not a ground-breaking genius.
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Until recently, his reputation had been in tatters, scorned by the British public, his role as a second world war code-breaking genius largely overlooked.
For those who don't know the Ruby Redfort books, Ruby comes across superficially as an average teenage girl, but she is far from average, a code breaking genius working for Spectrum 8, who puts her life on the line on a regular basis.
Instead one swish of Messi's boot in injury time and Iran's heartbroken players were slumped on the ground, their resistance finally broken by one little genius.
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Now he had wanted to be in Antigua to see the record broken by another West Indies genius, and a left-hander at that.
Influenced by such ways of thinking, Bellah trumpets the genius of all four civilizations and then denies that their resident geniuses broke any new ground.
Mr Mai instead illuminates the peculiar psychology of code-breaking: "One genius trying to work out what another genius has done it results in the most appalling carnage".
