No, I am not interested in developing a powerful brain. All I am after is just a mediocre brain, something like the Brain of the Man in the Street.
Computer science, codebreaking
A conversation with Christopher Strachey, quoted in 'Alan Turing: The Enigma' by Andrew Hodges.
Approx. 1950-1951
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