"Sometimes it is the people no one imagines anything of who do the things that no one can imagine."
"A man provided with paper, pencil, and rubber, and subject to strict discipline, is in effect a universal machine."
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Source: Intelligent Machinery: A Report by A. M. Turing. Submitted to the National Physical Laboratory in 1948. Key Papers: Cybernetics. Book edited by C. R. Evans and A. D. J. Robertson, 1968.
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