Quote by Turing, Alan
"The digital computer is in itself a universal machine in the sense that it can, if properly programmed and supplied with an appropriate memory, be made to carry out any definite rule of thumb process."
More from Turing, Alan
"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."
"The question 'Can machines think?' I believe is too meaningless to deserve discussion."
"A man provided with paper, pencil, and rubber, and subject to strict discipline, is in effect a universal computing machine."
"Computing machinery and intelligence."