# Machines Keep Surprising Their Inventors by Alan Turing > "Machines take me by surprise with great frequency." > **— Alan Turing**, *Computing Machinery and Intelligence (1950)* Verification Status: Unverified — exact wording/source has not yet been independently confirmed against a primary source; source clue: Computing Machinery and Intelligence (1950). ## Related Articles and Collections - **Collection:** [[collections/Machine Succession|Machine Succession]] - **Collection:** [[collections/Consciousness Continuity|Consciousness Continuity]] - **Article:** [[articles/The Last Migration Will Not Be Human|The Last Migration Will Not Be Human]] - **Article:** [[articles/Christopher Nolan's Odyssey at the Threshold of Machine Succession|Christopher Nolan's Odyssey at the Threshold of Machine Succession]] - **Article:** [[articles/Uploading Is Imminent|Uploading Is Imminent]] - **Wiki map:** [[wiki/Machine Succession|Machine Succession]] ## Related Topics - [[wiki/Alan Turing|Alan Turing]] - [[wiki/Machine Succession|Machine Succession]] - [[wiki/Machine Civilization|Machine Civilization]] - [[wiki/Uploaded Intelligence|Uploaded Intelligence]] - [[wiki/Substrate-Independent Evolution|Substrate-Independent Evolution]] - [[wiki/Civilizational Handoff|Civilizational Handoff]] ## Share on Social Media ``` "Machines take me by surprise with great frequency." — Alan Turing, Computing Machinery and Intelligence (1950) https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-alan-turing-machines-keep-surprising-inventors ```