Alan Turing Berühmte Zitate
Computing Machinery and Intelligence, Mind, 59, 433-460 http://loebner.net/Prizef/TuringArticle.html (1950)
Original engl.: "In attempting to construct such machines we should not be irreverently usurping His power of creating souls, any more than we are in the procreation of children: rather we are, in either case, instruments of His will providing mansions for the souls that He creates."
Computing Machinery and Intelligence, Mind, 59, 433-460 http://loebner.net/Prizef/TuringArticle.html (1950)
Original engl.: "We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done."
Alan Turing: Zitate auf Englisch
On Computable Numbers, with an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem (1936)
On Computable Numbers, with an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem (1936)
"Intelligent Machinery." This passage was one of the epigraphs to Cryptonomicon, the influential novel by Neal Stephenson, in which Turing was a fictionalized character. It shared a page with a quote from Imelda Marcos.