50 Quotes by Alan Turing

Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition.

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

Machines take me by surprise with great frequency.

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 none.

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 of it ever becoming a drudge, for any processes that are quite mechanical may be turned over to the machine itself.

The Exclusion Principle is laid down purely for the benefit of the electrons themselves, who might be corrupted (and become dragons or demons) if allowed to associate too freely.

My little computer said such a funny thing this morning.

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

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