Alan Turing Quotes
Alan Mathison Turing was a British mathematician, logician, and philosopher of mind who is widely regarded as the founder of theoretical computer science and artificial intelligence. His 1936 paper On Computable Numbers introduced the notion of a universal computing machine and gave the first sustained mathematical treatment of effective computation. The quotes below are attributed to Alan Turing, organized by topic.
Alan Turing on Mind
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Attributed to Alan Turing:
“Can machines think?”
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Attributed to Alan Turing:
“A computer would deserve to be called intelligent if it could deceive a human into believing that it was human.”
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Attributed to Alan Turing:
“Mathematical reasoning is the exercise of a combination of two faculties: intuition and ingenuity.”
Alan Turing on Time
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Attributed to Alan Turing:
“We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.”
Alan Turing on Virtue
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Attributed to Alan Turing:
“Sometimes it is the people no one imagines anything of who do the things that no one can imagine.”