In celebration of Alan Turing's centenary, the Royal Society has published two special issues "The foundations of computation, physics and mentality: the Turing legacy" by S Barry Cooper and Samson Abramsky and "Computability and the Turing centenary" Organized by S. Barry Cooper and Philip Maini. Here we talk to Samson Abramsky about the richness of Alan Turing's intellectual legacy in the modern conception of computation.