Quotes from Alan Turing

Machines take me by surprise with great frequency.

I want a permanent relationship, and I might feel inclined to reject anything which of its nature could not be permanent.

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.

If a machine is expected to be infallible, it cannot also be intelligent.

Sometimes it is the people who no one imagines anything of who do the things that no one can imagine.

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

It is not possible to produce a set of rules purporting to describe what a man should do in every conceivable set of circumstances.