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What's the point in being here if you have to follow a computer? What is this, a fucking Turing test in reverse? — Ahmir Questlove Thompson

Alan Turing, to me, always felt like an outsider's outsider. — Graham Moore

Programming is a skill best acquired by practice and example rather than from books. — Alan Turing

Codes are a puzzle. A game, just like any other game. — Alan Turing

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

We all have friends we love dearly that couldn't pass for human in a strict Turing test. — Penn Jillette

A very large part of space-time must be investigated, if reliable results are to be obtained. — Alan Turing

Sometimes it is the people no one can imagine anything of who do the things no one can imagine. — Alan Turing

Unless in communicating with it one says exactly what one means, trouble is bound to result. — Alan Turing

I want a permanent relationship, and I might feel inclined to reject anything which of its nature could not be permanent. — Alan Turing

From a contradiction you may deduce everything — Janna Levin

Those who can imagine anything, can create the impossible. — Alan Turing

I had my own test, better than Turing's: when a computer could genuinely convince me that it wanted to commit suicide. — Ken Wilber

If a machine is expected to be infallible, it cannot also be intelligent. - Alan Turing — Stuart Firestein

A man provided with paper, pencil, and rubber, and subject to strict discipline, is in effect a universal machine. — Alan Turing

Where are you going?" Turing had asked.
"Nowhere."
"Me too. — David Lagercrantz

I had first heard about Alan Turing when I was a teenager. I've known about him since I was a kid, and I always wanted to write about him. — Graham Moore

Messages from the unseen that the great Alan Turing left behind at his death: Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition. — Jim Holt

Alan Turing is such an amazing, tragic story. — David Lagercrantz

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

We may hope that machines will eventually compete with men in all purely intellectual fields. — 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

Alan Turing, however, cared nothing for the opinion of society, and therefore was ahead of his time in laying bare the role of the state. — Andrew Hodges

Machines take me by surprise with great frequency. — Alan Turing

Love is the Turing test, [ ... ] It is how we check for life. — Catherynne M Valente

Any AI smart enough to pass a Turing test is smart enough to know to fail it. — Ian McDonald

I have such a stressful job that the only way I can get it out of my mind is by running hard. — Alan Turing

Any [artificial intelligence] smart enough to pass a Turing test is smart enough to know to fail it." - IAN MCDONALD, River of Gods It — Nick Cole

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

Sometimes it is the people who no one imagines anything of who do the things that no one can imagine. — Alan Turing

The original question, 'Can machines think?' I believe to be too meaningless to deserve discussion. — Alan Turing

When your language is nowhere near Turing-complete, syntactic sugar can be your friend. — Eric S. Raymond

His machines - soon to be called Turing machines - offered a bridge, a connection between abstract symbols and the physical world. — Andrew Hodges

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