Alan Turing Quotes

The idea behind digital computers may be explained by saying that these machines are intended to carry out any operations which could be done by a human computer.

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• I think one thing that kids who grow up on farms really have going for them is they have exposure to death and birth in a totally different way. I think it takes away a little bit of the mystery and a little bit of the fear, and I do wish I had that. And I wish I was able to grow my own food.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Up
  • Different
  • Kids

• Money brings a lot of responsibility as to what you're going to do with it, and I've given quite a bit of thought to that.

  

  Harold Simmons
  • Money
  • You
  • Responsibility

• There comes a time when money doesn't matter.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Time
  • Money
  • Matter

• You must prune dead or dying wood.

  

  Warren Giles
  • You
  • Dying
  • Wood

• I really bonded with my mom, growing up, through our love of horror movies!

  

  Garrett Clayton
  • Growing
  • Mom
  • Horror

• Forethought we may have, undoubtedly, but not foresight.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • May
  • Foresight
  • Undoubtedly

• I was looking for what was coming from a man's soul and a man's conviction. I didn't care about his past. If it was innate and natural and felt good to him and it communicated.

  

  Sam Phillips
  • Good
  • Soul
  • Man

• I discovered that the study of past philosophers is of little use unless our own reality enters into it. Our reality alone allows the thinker's questions to become comprehensible.

  

  Karl Jaspers
  • Reality
  • Past
  • Alone

• Proust is a huge author for me.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Me
  • Author
  • Huge

• I'm a terrific mimic, and you can feel my funny bone.

  

  Madhur Bhandarkar
  • You
  • Funny
  • Feel

• We did a lot of those road trips, all the mandatory stuff that you should when you're a kid, like Mount Rushmore and the Grand Canyon and the Sequoias and the western coast.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • You
  • Road
  • Grand Canyon

• The motivation should come from regulatory enforcement, but enforcement is weak, and environmental litigation is near to impossible. So there's an urgent need for extensive public participation to generate another kind of motivation.

  

  Ma Jun
  • motivation
  • Environmental

• Everybody knows if you don't have an examined life, you go mad.

  

  Taylor Negron
  • Life
  • You
  • Mad

• Prayer is an act of love; words are not needed. Even if sickness distracts from thoughts, all that is needed is the will to love.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • Love
  • Words
  • Thoughts

• Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Long
  • Where
  • Commerce

• Cynicism, I contend, is the wailing of someone who believes that things are, or should be, or could be, much, much better than they are.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Better
  • Someone
  • Cynicism

• On my desk, I always have a lemon or a lime drying. I love the fragrance. Also, a Staedtler eraser, a brush for the eraser and a pencil sharpener.

  

  Maira Kalman
  • Fragrance
  • Lemon
  • Lime

• I can watch a movie and go, 'Oh, my god, that person is acting.' If you just listen to what the other person is saying, your response will always be genuine.

  

  Kat Dennings
  • God
  • Movie
  • Acting

• Major sports are major parts of society. It's not anomalous to have people who love sports come from other parts of that society.

  

  A. Bartlett Giamatti
  • People
  • Love
  • Society

• A friend of mine and I would go to this dirty little bar in Toronto that has karaoke every Tuesday night, and one night, we noticed that the only other person in there was Derek Jeter.

  

  Hannah Simone
  • Night
  • Friend
  • Dirty

• The first good player I watched as a kid was Joe DiMaggio, and that was like ballet. Since then, I played sandlot and college ball and came to understand how difficult it can be.

  

  Mario Cuomo
  • Good
  • College
  • Player

• Physical books are still my favorite, but I own an e-book reader. They're convenient for travel.

  

  Jesmyn Ward
  • Book
  • Travel

• Ideally, I'd love to write poems that intrigued humans across the board: literary folk and academics as well as... dog-walkers, doctors, plumbers, chefs, math professors, jugglers, etc.

  

  Amy Gerstler
  • Dog
  • Math

• The idea behind digital computers may be explained by saying that these machines are intended to carry out any operations which could be done by a human computer.

  

  Alan Turing
  • Done
  • May