Quotes of Turing - somelinesforyou

“ I never lost money by turing a profit. ”

- Bernard Baruch

“ The fathers of the field had been pretty confusing: John von Neumann speculated about computers and the human brain in analogies sufficiently wild to be worthy of a medieval thinker, and Alan Turing thought about criteria to settle the question of whether machines can think, a question of which we now know that it is about as relevant as the question of whether submarines can swim. ”

- Professor Edsger Dijkstra

“ All the limitative Theorems of metamathematics and the theory of computation suggest that once the ability to represent your own structure has reached a certain critical point, that is the kiss of death: it guarantees that you can never represent yourself totally… ”

- Douglas R. Hofstadter
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