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Alan Turing

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Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition.


— Alan Turing


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We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.


— Alan Turing


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A computer would deserve to be called intelligent if it could deceive a human into believing that it was human.


— Alan Turing


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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.


— Alan Turing


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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


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We are not interested in the fact that the brain has the consistency of cold porridge.


— Alan Turing


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Machines take me by surprise with great frequency.


— Alan Turing


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About Alan Turing

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Did you know about Alan Turing?

Turing had something of a reputation for eccentricity at Bletchley Park. For a time he was head of Hut 8 the section responsible for German naval cryptanalysis. UK celebrations

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An inquest determined that his death was suicide; his mother and some others believed his death was accidental. In 1948 Turing joined Max Newman's Computing Laboratory at Manchester University where he assisted in the development of the Manchester computers and became interested in mathematical biology. He devised a number of techniques for breaking German ciphers including the method of the bombe an electromechanical machine that could find settings for the Enigma machine.

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