Quotes from Alan Turing

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

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 such a stressful job that the only way I can get it out of my mind is by running hard.

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

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

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

I'm afraid that the following syllogism may be used by some in the future. Turing believes machines think Turing lies with men Therefore machines do not think Yours in distress, Alan