Alan Turing Quotes

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

Human, Believing, Deserve

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

Done, Short, Needs

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

Religion, Science, Condition

Machines take me by surprise with great frequency.
Alan Turing

Great, Surprise, Machines

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

End, Thinking, Words

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.
Alan Turing

Powerful, Brain, After

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

May, Two, Rather

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

Brain, Fact, Cold

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Mathematician

Born: June 23, 1912

Died: June 7, 1954

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