Language and the Rise of the Algorithm Quotes

“Merely having a written text at hand is no guarantee that one knows anything”
― Jeffrey M. Binder, Language and the Rise of the Algorithm

“While some later commentators have presumed that Turing saw the human mind as a sort of biological Turing Machine, the thesis suggests that, at least in 1938, he saw it more as a somewhat unreliable oracle machine—as a Turing Machine supplemented by an additional element that cannot be reduced to mechanical rules.”
― Jeffrey M. Binder, Language and the Rise of the Algorithm