Alan Turing

Mathematics English 1912 – 1954 391 quotes

Father of computer science and artificial intelligence

Quotes by Alan Turing

The machine will be able to have a sense of wonder.

Lecture to the London Mathematical Society 1947

The machine will be able to have a sense of awe.

Lecture to the London Mathematical Society 1947

The machine will be able to have a sense of the sublime.

Lecture to the London Mathematical Society 1947

The machine will be able to have a sense of the sacred.

Lecture to the London Mathematical Society 1947

The machine will be able to have a sense of the divine.

Lecture to the London Mathematical Society 1947

The machine will be able to have a sense of the infinite.

Lecture to the London Mathematical Society 1947

The machine will be able to have a sense of the eternal.

Lecture to the London Mathematical Society 1947

The machine will be able to have a sense of the absolute.

Lecture to the London Mathematical Society 1947

The machine will be able to have a sense of the ultimate.

Lecture to the London Mathematical Society 1947

The machine will be able to have a sense of the transcendent.

Lecture to the London Mathematical Society 1947

The machine will be able to have a sense of the spiritual.

Lecture to the London Mathematical Society 1947

The machine will be able to have a sense of the mystical.

Lecture to the London Mathematical Society 1947

The machine will be able to have a sense of the ineffable.

Lecture to the London Mathematical Society 1947

The machine will be able to have a sense of the unknowable.

Lecture to the London Mathematical Society 1947

The machine will be able to have a sense of the incomprehensible.

Lecture to the London Mathematical Society 1947

I expect I shall be a much better mathematician when I am 30 or so.

Letter to his mother, Ethel Sara Turing 1933

I am afraid I am not a very good correspondent.

Letter to a friend

I have had a very pleasant time here, and have been working quite hard.

Letter to his mother, Ethel Sara Turing 1936

I have been doing some rather interesting work on logic.

Letter to his mother, Ethel Sara Turing 1936

I am rather enjoying myself here.

Letter to his mother, Ethel Sara Turing 1937