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Sometimes it is the people no one imagines anything of who do the things that no-one can imagine
Alan Turing
We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.
Alan Turing
Mathematical reasoning may be regarded...
Alan Turing
A computer would deserve to be called intelligent if it could deceive a human into believing that it was human.
Alan Turing
If a machine is expected to be infallible, it cannot also be intelligent.
Alan Turing
Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition.
Alan Turing
No, I'm not interested in developing a powerful brain...
Alan Turing
It seems probable that once the machine thinking method had started, it would not take long to outstrip our feeble powers… They would be able to converse with each other to sharpen their wits. At some stage therefore, we should have to expect the machines to take control.
Alan Turing
The original question, 'Can machines think?' I believe to be too meaningless to deserve discussion.
Alan Turing
Machines take me by surprise with great frequency.
Alan Turing

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