Alan Turing

1912–1954 · British mathematician and computer scientist

British mathematician and computer scientist whose work helped establish the theory of computation. His 1950 paper considered how machine intelligence might be discussed and tested.

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4 quotes we’ve traced to Alan Turing

“Machines take me by surprise with great frequency”

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“Programming is a skill best acquired by practice and example rather than from books”

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

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“This is only a foretaste of what is to come, and only the shadow of what is going to be”

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