Alan Turing

Bell Labs Cafeteria, New York, 1943: His high pitched voice already stood out above the general murmur of well-behaved junior executives grooming…

— Alan Turing

A man provided with paper, pencil, and rubber, and subject to strict discipline, is in effect a universal machine.

— Alan Turing

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

— Alan Turing

Sometimes it is the people no one imagines anything of who do the things that no-one can imagine

— Alan Turing

No, I'm not interested in developing a powerful brain.

— Alan Turing

No, I'm not interested in developing a powerful brain. All I'm after is just a mediocre brain, something like the President of…

— Alan Turing

Machines take me by surprise with great frequency.

— Alan Turing

Instruction tables will have to be made up by mathematicians with computing experience and perhaps a certain puzzle-solving ability. There need be…

— Alan Turing

Sometimes it is those that nobody imagines anything of that does the things that nobody can imagne.

— Alan Turing

There is, however, one feature that I would like to suggest should be incorporated in the machines, and that is a 'random…

— Alan Turing

It seems probable that once the machine thinking method had started, it would not take long to outstrip our feeble powers… They…

— Alan Turing

A very large part of space-time must be investigated, if reliable results are to be obtained.

— Alan Turing

We may hope that machines will eventually compete with men in all purely intellectual fields. But which are the best ones to…

— Alan Turing

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

— Alan Turing

The original question, 'Can machines think?' I believe to be too meaningless to deserve discussion.

— Alan Turing

My little computer said such a funny thing this morning.

— Alan Turing

I have had a dream indicating rather clearly that I am on the way to being hetero, though I don't accept it…

— Alan Turing

“I've now got myself into the kind of trouble that I have always considered to be quite a possibility for me, though…

— Alan Turing

The idea behind digital computers may be explained by saying that these machines are intended to carry out any operations which could…

— Alan Turing

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

— Alan Turing

Unless in communicating with it one says exactly what one means, trouble is bound to result.

— Alan Turing

The Exclusion Principle is laid down purely for the benefit of the electrons themselves, who might be corrupted (and become dragons or…

— Alan Turing

Mathematical reasoning may be regarded...

— Alan Turing

I believe that at the end of the century the use of words and general educated opinion will have altered so much…

— Alan Turing

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

— Alan Turing