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The Best of Alan Turing Quotes – Wisdom for All

Nov 1, 2023 Richest Earth 511 Views

“Inspirational Quotes of Alan Turing”

“A man provided with paper, pencil, and rubber, and subject to strict discipline, is in effect a universal machine.” – Alan Turing
“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.” – Alan Turing
“Presumably the child-brain is something like a notebook as one buys it from the stationer’s. Rather little mechanism, and lots of blank sheets.” – Alan Turing

“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.” – Alan Turing
“A computer would deserve to be called intelligent if it could deceive a human into believing that it was human.”- Alan Turing
“Turing believes machines think; Turing lies with men; Therefore machines do not think” – Alan Turing
“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.”- Alan Turing

Quotes on Machines & Computers

“Codes are a puzzle. A game. Just like any other game.” – 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
“Up to a point, it is better to just let the snags [bugs] be there than to spend such time in design that there are none.” – Alan Turing
“Codes are a puzzle. A game. Just like any other game.” – Alan Turing
“There is, however, one feature that I would like to suggest should be incorporated in the machines, and that is a ‘random element.’ Each machine should be supplied with a tape bearing a random series of figures” – Alan Turing

Quotes on ‘The Imitation Game’

“Of course machines can’t think as people do. A machine is different from a person. Hence, they think differently. The interesting question is, just because something, uh.. thinks differently from you, does that mean it’s not thinking?” – 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
“What I will need from you now is a commitment. You will listen closely, and you will not judge me until I am finished. If you cannot commit to this, then please leave the room. But if you choose to stay, remember you chose to be here. What happens from this moment forward is not my responsibility.” – Alan Turing
“Hardest time to lie to somebody is when they’re expecting to be lied to.” – Alan Turing
“When people talk to each other, they never say what they mean. [Pause] They say something else and you’re expected to just know what they mean.” – Alan Turing
“Sometimes it is the people no one imagines anything of who do the things that no one can imagine.” – Alan Turing
“Are you paying attention? Good. If you are not listening carefully, you will miss things… You think that because you’re sitting where you are, and I am sitting where I am, that you are in control of what is about to happen. You’re mistaken. I am in control, because I know things that you do not know.” – Alan Turing

Quotes on Science & Maths

“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
“Mathematical reasoning may be regarded rather schematically as the exercise of a combination of two facilities, which we may call intuition and ingenuity.”- Alan Turing
“For some purposes, we might use machines (choice… or c-machines) whose motion is only partially determined by the configuration… When such a machine reaches… ambiguous configurations, it cannot go on until some arbitrary choice has been made by an external operator.”- Alan Turing
“A very large part of space-time must be investigated, if reliable results are to be obtained.”- Alan Turing
“Mathematical reasoning may be regarded rather schematically as the exercise of a combination of two facilities, which we may call intuition and ingenuity.”- Alan Turing
“For some purposes, we might use machines (choice… or c-machines) whose motion is only partially determined by the configuration… When such a machine reaches… ambiguous configurations, it cannot go on until some arbitrary choice has been made by an external operator.”- Alan Turing
. “This is only a foretaste of what is to come, and only the shadow of what is going to be. We have to have some experience with the machine before we really know its capabilities.”- Alan Turing