Alan Turing - Man Quotes

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A man provided with paper, pencil, and rubber, and subject to strict discipline, is in effect a universal machine.

Alan Turing

We do not wish to penalise the machine for its inability to shine in beauty competitions, nor to penalise a man for losing in a race against an aeroplane. The conditions of our game make these disabilities irrelevant.

Alan Turing

May not machines carry out something which ought to be described as thinking but which is very different from what a man does?

Alan Turing