Alan Turing Quotes

Hardest time to lie to somebody is when they’re expecting to be lied to.

Even a broken clock is right twice a day.

When people talk to each other, they never say what they mean. They say something else, and you’re expected to just know what they mean.

Sometimes we can’t do what feels good. We have to do what is logical.

Codes are a puzzle. A game, just like any other game.

Of course machines can’t think as people do. A machine is different from a person. Hence, they think differently. The interesting question is, just because something thinks differently from you, does that mean it’s not thinking?[to Detective Robert Nock]

Do you know why people like violence? It is because it feels good. Humans find violence deeply satisfying. But remove the satisfaction, and the act becomes hollow.

Advice about keeping secrets. It’s a lot easier if you don’t know them in the first place.

What is the point of different tastes, different preferences, if not to say that our brains work differently, that we think differently? And if we can say that about one another, then why can’t we say the same thing for brains built of copper and wire, steel?[to Detective Robert Nock]

Was I God? No. Because God didn’t win the war, we did.