Alan Turing Quotes

Sometimes it is the people no one can imagine anything of who do the things no one can imagine.

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

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

We must be careful not to assign to this deliverer of ours, the machine, beauty, grace, and grandeur which are foreign to its intrinsic nature.

Machines take me by surprise with great frequency.

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

I’m not very good at mathematics, but I can try my best.

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

Those who can imagine anything, can create the impossible.

A mathematician is not a machine for turning coffee into theorems.

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

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

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.

I believe that at the end of the century the use of words and general educated opinion will have altered so much that one will be able to speak of machines thinking without expecting to be contradicted.

Alan Turing Quotes part 2

I shall not trouble the reader with details, but the result of the struggle was the agreement that the machine should be allowed to make little successes.

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 asking whether a machine can think and at the same time to be a man.

The difference for machines might be minute compared to the difference for us.

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

It is a mistake to suppose that the public wants the environment protected or their lives saved and that they will be grateful to any idealist who will fight for such ends.

Try to understand what I am saying: once a new technology rolls over you, if you’re not part of the steamroller, you’re part of the road.

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.

I have no prejudice against females as such… Although I object to all-male societies, I suppose you are justified in having one.

We have to realise that, although the results of using machines in education may be drastic and revolutionary, the process is likely to be slow.

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

Machines take me by surprise with great frequency.

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.

I believe that at the end of the century the use of words and general educated opinion will have altered so much that one will be able to speak of machines thinking without expecting to be contradicted.

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

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

I shall not trouble the reader with details, but the result of the struggle was the agreement that the machine should be allowed to make little successes.

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

A machine has surprises down all the lines which have a toehold with us.

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

I believe that at the end of the century the use of words and general educated opinion will have altered so much that one will be able to speak of machines thinking without expecting to be contradicted.

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

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.

I believe that at the end of the century the use of words and general educated opinion will have altered so much that one will be able to speak of machines thinking without expecting to be contradicted.

Those who can imagine anything, can create the impossible.

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

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

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

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

I shall not trouble the reader with details, but the result of the struggle was the agreement that the machine should be allowed to make little successes.