Alan Turing Quotes
- Do you know why people like violence? It is because it feels good. Humans find violence deeply satisfying. But remove the satisfaction, and the act…
- A computer would deserve to be called intelligent if it could deceive a human into believing that it was human.
- We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.
- Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition.
- Machines take me by surprise with great frequency.
- We are not interested in the fact that the brain has the consistency of cold porridge.
- 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…
- Mathematical reasoning may be regarded rather schematically as the exercise of a combination of two facilities, which we may call intuition and ingenuity.
- In attempting to construct such (artificially intelligent) machines we should not be irreverently usurping His (God's) power of creating souls, any more than we are…
- I'm afraid that the following syllogism may be used by some in the future. Turing believes machines think Turing lies with men Therefore machines do…
- Sometimes it is those that nobody imagines anything of that does the things that nobody can imagne.
- In the time of Galileo it was argued that the texts, 'And the sun stood still ... and hasted not to go down about a…