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Alan Turing (Computer Scientist)

Science is a . Religion is a .

— Alan Turing religion

Mathematical reasoning may be regarded rather schematically as the exercise of a combination of two facilities, which we may call intuition and ingenuity. The activity of the intuition consists in making spontaneous judgements which are not the result of conscious trains of reasoning... The exercise of ingenuity in mathematics consists in aiding the intuition through suitable arrangements of propositions, and perhaps geometrical figures or drawings.

— Alan Turing men

Instruction tables will have to be made up by mathematicians with computing experience and perhaps a certain puzzle-solving ability. There need be no real danger of it ever becoming a drudge, for any processes that are quite mechanical may be turned over to the machine itself.

— Alan Turing self

A man provided with paper, pencil, and rubber, and subject to strict discipline, is in effect a .

— Alan Turing man

The Exclusion Principle is laid down purely for the benefit of the electrons themselves, who might be corrupted (and become dragons or demons) if allowed to associate too freely.

— Alan Turing free

Published in Mind – A Quarterly Review of Psychology and Philosophy, vol. 59, #236 (1950). This paper describes what has come to be known as the . At the time it was written, the term "computer" was a job title describing an individual who processed figures by hand. -

— Alan Turing time

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 words

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

— Alan Turing need

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 man

I am not very impressed with theological arguments whatever they may be used to support. Such arguments have often been found unsatisfactory in the past. In the time ofit was argued that the texts, "And the sun stood still... and hasted not to go down about a whole day" (Joshua x. 13) and "He laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not move at any time" (Psalm cv. 5) were an adequate refutation of the Copernican theory.

— Alan Turing time

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

— Alan Turing books

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