How is this any more appropriate for Hacker News than President Obama's speech to schoolchildren (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=810399)? It seems to me that both are a national leader saying basically common things.
The Turing story has Alan Turing, one of the forefathers of modern computing, and probably an idol, of sorts, to many of the readers here.
So on those grounds, yeah, I could see how the latter is much more appropriate for this site.