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 ↗“Mathematical reasoning may be regarded rather schematically as the exercise of a combination of two facilities, which we may call intuition and ingenuity.”
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“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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“The original question, "Can machines think?" I believe to be too meaningless to deserve discussion. Nevertheless 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.”
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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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