The Fathers Of The Field Had Been Pretty Confusing

HomeFortune CookiesMiscellaneous Collections

The fathers of the field had been pretty confusing: John von Neumann
speculated about computers and the human brain in analogies
sufficiently wild to be worthy of a medieval thinker, and Alan
Turing thought about criteria to settle the question of whether
machines can think, a question of which we now know that it is about
as relevant as the question of whether submarines can swim.
-- Edsger Dijkstra

Related: