34 Quotes by Andrew Hodges

HIs chess-playing methods did the same thing — as did the games on the Colossi — and posed the question as to where a line could be drawn between the 'intelligent' and the 'mechanical'. His view, expressed in terms of the imitation principle, was that there was no such line, and neither did he ever draw a sharp distinction between the 'states of mind' approach and the 'instruction note' approach to the problem of reconciling the appearance of freedom and of determinism.

His machines - soon to be called Turing machines - offered a bridge, a connection between abstract symbols and the physical world.

Is there intelligence without life? Is there mind without communication? Is there language without living? Is there thought without experience?

He was one of those many people without a natural sense of left and right, and he made a little red spot on his left thumb, which he called ’the knowing spot.

His studies of the various branches of Indian law, the Tamil language and the history of British India then won him seventh place again in the Final ICS examination of 1896.

His was the other road to freedom, that of dedication to his craft.

Alan was slow to learn that indistinct line that separated initiative from disobedience.

God, having created his Universe, has now screwed the cap on His pen, put His feet on the mantelpiece and left the work to get on with itself.

It was difficult enough being a mathematician, this being the frightening subject of which even educated people knew nothing, not even what it was, and of which they might proudly boast ignorance. His.