Alan Turing
British · 1912–1954
Mathematician and logician who laid the foundations of computer science and artificial intelligence, and cracked the Enigma code in World War II.
Wikipedia ↗“We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.”
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“Machines take me by surprise with great frequency.”
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“A computer would deserve to be called intelligent if it could deceive a human into believing that it was human.”
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“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.”
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“Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition.”
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