Alan Turing

“We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.”

“I believe that at the end of the century the use of words and general educated opinion will have altered so much that one will be able to speak of machines thinking without expecting to be c...”

“The isolated man does not develop any intellectual power. It is necessary for him to be immersed in an environment of other men, whose techniques he absorbs during the first twenty years of...”

“I am not very impressed with theological arguments whatever they may be used to support. Such arguments have often been found unsatisfactory in the past. In the time of Galileo it was argued...”

“I believe that at the end of the century the use of words and general educated opinion will have altered so much that one will be able to speak of machines thinking without expecting to be c...”

“A computer would deserve to be called intelligent if it could deceive a human into believing that it was human.”

“Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition.”

“We are not interested in the fact that the brain has the consistency of cold porridge.”

“Mathematical reasoning may be regarded rather schematically as the exercise of a combination of two facilities, which we may call intuition and ingenuity.”

“Machines take me by surprise with great frequency.”

“I have such a stressful job that the only way I can get it out of my mind is by running hard.”

“No, I'm not interested in developing a powerful brain. All I'm after is just a mediocre brain, something like the President of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company.”