Alan Turing
Computer science, codebreaking
Sayings by Alan Turing
The machine should be able to learn from experience.
The popular view is that the brain is a kind of telephone exchange. I believe that it is not quite as simple as that.
It is not easy to devise a game which is fair in this respect between the machine and the man.
The question is not 'Can machines think?' but 'Can machines do what we (as thinking entities) can do?'
A human being is a machine for converting food into thoughts.
The value of a result is not measured by the time it took to get it.
It is possible for a machine to have a memory in the sense that a human being has a memory.
Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty—a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture, without appeal to any part of our weaker nature, without the gorgeous trappings of painting or music, yet sublimely pure, and capable of a stern perfection such as only the greatest art can show.
The process of education is an attempt to produce the kind of intelligence that we would like to have in our machines.
The human brain is a very remarkable thing, but it is not infallible.
There are many questions which we shall have to answer, for example, what is the nature of consciousness?
The machine cannot do anything new.
The game of cricket is one such example of a game which can be played against the computer.
It is not possible to produce a machine which will be intelligent in the same way that a human being is intelligent.
The human intellect is a very powerful thing, but it has its limitations.
The machine should be able to make mistakes.
The problem of intelligence is a very difficult one.
We are trying to make a brain.
The machine should be able to carry out logical deductions.
The process of learning is a very complex one.