Alan Quote by George Dyson

“If he would just work with pure ideas like a proper mathematician he could go as fast as thought. As it happens, Alan has…

— Neal Stephenson

More than sixty years ago, mathematical logicians, by defining precisely the concept of an algorithm, gave content to the ancient human idea of an…

— David Berlinski

“Alan Turing proposed the Turing Test: a computer is intelligent if you can't tell it from a human when you talk with it. No…

— CJS Hayward

“Like Alan Turing, Zuse was educated in a system that focused on a child's emotional and philosophical life as well as his intellectual life,…

— Konrad Zuse

So in the end it wasn't Gödel, it wasn't Turing, and it wasn't my results that are making mathematics go into an experimental mathematics…

— Gregory Chaitin

“The rules of software are the same today as they were in 1946, when Alan Turing wrote the very first code that would execute…

— Robert C. Martin

“He looked past Chin toward streams of numbers running in opposite directions. He understood how much it meant to him, the roll and flip…

— Don DeLillo

“DESPITE THE INVENTION OF TIME MACHINES, WE KEEP BEING LINEAR.”

— Amy King

“This was the eloquence of alphabets and numeric systems, now fully realized in electronic form, in the zero-oneness of the world, the digital imperative…

— Don Delillo, Cosmopolis

“Turing knew from personal experience that it didn’t matter who you really were – it mattered only what others thought about you. According to…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“When all is said and done, the invention of writing must be reckoned not only as a brilliant innovation but as a surpassing good…

— Carl Sagan

“A mathematician, however, who could back his prophecy with mathematical formulas and terminology, might be understood by no one and yet believed by everyone.”

— Isaac Asimov