Alan Turing Quotes

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• We may hope that machines will eventually compete with men in all purely intellectual fields. But which are the best ones to start with? Many…
• Up to a point, it is better to just let the snags [bugs] be there than to spend such time in design that there are…
• 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…
• 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.…
• It seems probable that once the machine thinking method had started, it would not take long to outstrip our feeble powers… They would be able…
• A very large part of space-time must be investigated, if reliable results are to be obtained.
• The original question, 'Can machines think?' I believe to be too meaningless to deserve discussion.
• My little computer said such a funny thing this morning.
• Instruction tables will have to be made up by mathematicians with computing experience and perhaps a certain puzzle-solving ability. There need be no real danger…
• Unless in communicating with it one says exactly what one means, trouble is bound to result.
• A man provided with paper, pencil, and rubber, and subject to strict discipline, is in effect a universal machine.
• We may hope that machines will eventually compete with men in all purely intellectual fields.
• There is, however, one feature that I would like to suggest should be incorporated in the machines, and that is a 'random element.' Each machine…
• Mathematical reasoning may be regarded...
• One day ladies will take their computers for walks in the park and tell each other, "My little computer said such a funny thing this…
• Programming is a skill best acquired by practice and example rather than from books.
• Sometimes it is the people no one imagines anything of who do the things that no-one can imagine
• Bell Labs Cafeteria, New York, 1943: His high pitched voice already stood out above the general murmur of well-behaved junior executives grooming themselves for promotion…
• Codes are a puzzle. A game, just like any other game.
• When we want to sink a convoy, we send out an observation plane first... Of course, to observe is not its real duty, we already…

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