33 Quotes by Alan Turing Quoes

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

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

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

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

The idea behind digital computers may be explained by saying that these machines are intended to carry out any operations which could be done by a human computer.

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.

We may hope that machines will eventually compete with men in all purely intellectual fields.

Those who can imagine anything, can create the impossible.

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 not think Yours in distress, Alan.