“Suppose Mother wants Tommy to call at the cobbler's every morning on his way to school to see if her shoes are done, she can ask him afresh every morning. Alternatively she can stick up a notice once and for all in the hall which he will see when he leaves for school and which tells him to call for the shoes, and also to destroy the notice when he comes back if he has the shoes with him.”
More from Alan Turing
“Do you know why people like violence? It is because it feels good. Humans find violence…”
“Even a broken clock is right twice a day.”
“Think of it. A digital computer. Electrical brain.”
“Was I God? No. Because God didn't win the war. We did.”