Alan Turing Quotes

A man provided with paper, pencil, and rubber, and subject to strict discipline, is in effect a universal machine.

Alan Turing

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• I told Miss Kay we need to make sure our children don't turn out like I turned out, so they were raised up around biblical instruction. That mixed with discipline - the discipline code, I call it. They just had a lifestyle of seeing their parents do good things.

  

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• A man provided with paper, pencil, and rubber, and subject to strict discipline, is in effect a universal machine.

  

  Alan Turing
  • Discipline