“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…”— Alan Turing, csee.umbc.edu
“We do not wish to penalise the machine for its inability to shine in beauty competitions, nor to penalise a man for losing in a race against an aeroplane. The conditions of our game make these disabilities irrelevant.”— Alan Turing, csee.umbc.edu
“We are not asking whether all digital computers would do well in the game nor whether the computers at present available would do well, but whether there are imaginable computers which would do well.”— Alan Turing, csee.umbc.edu
“Last quarter, Twitter beat Wall Street’s estimates when it came to adding new users, but ad revenue declined year-on-year for the first time since it became a public company.”— Lara O’Reilly, wsj.com
“The sheer amount of computing going on is already consuming something like 2% of the world’s electricity generation.”— Tim Cross, theguardian.com