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.
Computer science, codebreaking
In 1943, at the Bell Labs Cafeteria in New York. Quoted in Andrew Hodges' "Alan Turing: The Enigma".
1943
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