No, I'm not interested in developing a powerful brain. All I'm after is just a mediocre brain, something like the President of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company.
Computer science, codebreaking
In 1943, at the Bell Labs Cafeteria in New York. Quoted in Andrew Hodges' "Alan Turing: The Enigma".
1943
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"Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere."
Controversial"The original question, 'Can machines think?' I believe to be too meaningless to deserve discussion."
Strange & Unusual"I am not interested in whether a machine can think, but in whether it can make me think."
Strange & Unusual"May not machines carry out something which ought to be described as thinking but which is very different from what a man does?"
Strange & Unusual"It seems probable that once the machine thinking method had started, it would not take long to outstrip our feeble powers and would take control."
Strange & Unusual