Alan Turing Short Quotes

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Machines take me by surprise with great frequency.

Alan Turing
I propose to consider the question, 'Can machines think?'

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

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

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

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

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

Alan Turing
In other words then, if a machine is expected to be infallible, it cannot also be intelligent.

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

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

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
Presumably the child-brain is something like a note-book as one buys it from the stationer's. Rather little mechanism, and lots of blank sheets.

Alan Turing
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.

Alan Turing
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.

Alan Turing
We are not asking whether all digital computers would do well in the game nor whether the computers at present available would do well, but whether there are imaginable computers which would do well.

Alan Turing