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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.

Alan Turing

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: mathematician
Nationality: english
Birth: June 23, 1912 - June 7, 1954

Topics

Saying Computers Done Human Digital

My fears are agitated to an extreme degree and the dread of death involves me in a stupor of chilling indisposition.

John Clare

Death Me Degree Chilling Extreme

Bent Literary Agency had a Q&A on Twitter, and I took a chance and asked if the Black Lives Matter movement was an appropriate topic for a YA novel. Brooks Sherman, who is now my agent, responded that he didn't think any topics were inappropriate for YA. I remember being so terrified even just sending the tweet.

Angie Thomas

Chance Black Think Remember Matter

I love the woods even more than the ocean.

Steven Tyler

Love Ocean Woods More Even Than

I think maybe we were just a little bit overdone. It was saturated. People may have gotten tired of us. We were everywhere, all the time.

Robin Zander

Time Tired People Think Little May

A country, people, and society are in a sorry state when the guardians of its democratic values and the rule of law are the officers of the armed forces who are forced to stand up to the mob and the politicians who incite it and kowtow to it.

Ronen Bergman

People Law Society Sorry Stand Up

Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.

Mary Shelley

Soul Purpose Mind Eye Intellectual

I loved Cambodia; watching the sun rise at Angkor Wat was really beautiful.

Michael Landes

Beautiful Sun Loved Rise Watching

The thing about growing old is you have to accept it - if you don't, you'll be as miserable as sin. You've got to try and find the few good things about it.

Judy Parfitt

Good Good Things You Find Sin Try

Sometimes it gets a little uncomfortable to not do everything. That was my modus operandi for many years, but I just feel like I want to do challenging roles.

Josh Pais

Feel Uncomfortable Sometimes Want

I think there's a vague sense out there that movies are becoming more and more unreal. I know I've felt it.

Christopher Nolan

Think Know Movies More Out Becoming

The 'Patriot Act,' 'Enhancing domestic security,' and 'Protect America' all sound great - until you realize that they're catch phrases for programs that contain roving wire taps without a warrant and the collection and sale of your personal information to the U.S. government.

Brandon Webb

Great Government America Information

I like every individual editor, designer, marketing and publicity person I deal with, but I don't like what publishers, corporately, are doing to the ecology of the book world. It's damaging, and it should change.

Philip Pullman

Change World Book Doing Person Deal