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

No, I'm not interested in developing a powerful brain.

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.

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

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.

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

I'm afraid that the following syllogism may be used by some in the future. Turing believes machines think Turing lies with men Therefore machines do not think Yours in distress, Alan