Alan Turing

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

“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.”

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

“לפעמים האנשים שאף אחד לא חושב עליהם דבר עושים את הדברים שאף אחד לא יכול לדמיין.”

“מכונות מצליחות להפתיע אותי די הרבה.”

“אנחנו יכולים לראות רק מעט קדימה, אבל אנחנו יכולים לראות שיש שם הרבה עבודה.”

“מחשב יוכל להיקרא אינטליגנטי אם הוא יגרום לאדם לחשוב שהוא אנושי.”

“לפעמים האנשים שאף אחד לא חושב עליהם דבר עושים את הדברים שאף אחד לא יכול לדמיין.”

“מכונות מצליחות להפתיע אותי די הרבה.”

“אנחנו יכולים לראות רק מעט קדימה, אבל אנחנו יכולים לראות שיש שם הרבה עבודה.”

“מחשב יוכל להיקרא אינטליגנטי אם הוא יגרום לאדם לחשוב שהוא אנושי.”

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

“Machines take me by surprise with great frequency.”

“Mathematical reasoning may be regarded rather schematically as the exercise of a combination of two facilities, which we may call intuition and ingenuity.”

“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.”

“I have had a dream indicating rather clearly that I am on the way to being hetero, though I don't accept it with much enthusiasm either awake or in the dreams.”

“I want a permanent relationship, and I might feel inclined to reject anything which of its nature could not be permanent.”

“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.”

“The isolated man does not develop any intellectual power. It is necessary for him to be immersed in an environment of other men, whose techniques he absorbs during the first twenty years of his life. He may then perhaps do a little research of his own and make a very few discoveries which are passed on to other men. From this point of view the search for new techniques must be regarded as carried out by the human community as a whole, rather than by individuals.”