Alan Turing Quotes

Alan Turing — English Mathematician born on June 23, 1912, died on June 07, 1954

Alan Mathison Turing, OBE, FRS was a British pioneering computer scientist, mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst and theoretical biologist. He was highly influential in the development of computer science, providing a formalisation of the concepts of algorithm and computation with the Turing machine, which can be considered a model of a general purpose computer. Turing is widely considered to be the father of theoretical computer science and artificial intelligence... (wikipedia)

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.

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

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

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