Machines take me by surprise with great frequency.
ALAN TURINGA man provided with paper, pencil, and rubber, and subject to strict discipline, is in effect a universal machine.
More Alan Turing Quotes
-
-
A man provided with paper, pencil, and rubber, and subject to strict discipline, is in effect a universal machine.
ALAN TURING -
Sometimes it is the people no one imagines anything of who do the things that no one can imagine.
ALAN TURING -
We may hope that machines will eventually compete with men in all purely intellectual fields.
ALAN TURING -
Codes are a puzzle. A game, just like any other game.
ALAN TURING -
One day ladies will take their computers for walks in the park and tell each other, “My little computer said such a funny thing this morning”.
ALAN TURING -
Instead of trying to produce a programme to simulate the adult mind, why not rather try to produce one which simulates the child’s? If this were then subjected to an appropriate course of education one would obtain the adult brain.
ALAN TURING -
Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition.
ALAN TURING -
Do you know why people like violence? It is because it feels good. Humans find violence deeply satisfying. But remove the satisfaction, and the act becomes hollow.
ALAN TURING -
Programming is a skill best acquired by practice and example rather than from books.
ALAN TURING -
My little computer said such a funny thing this morning.
ALAN TURING -
Unless in communicating with it one says exactly what one means, trouble is bound to result.
ALAN TURING -
If a machine is expected to be infallible, it cannot also be intelligent.
ALAN TURING -
We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.
ALAN TURING -
No, I’m not interested in developing a powerful brain.
ALAN TURING -
A very large part of space-time must be investigated, if reliable results are to be obtained.
ALAN TURING