# May not machines carry out something which ought to be described as thinking but which is… by Alan Turing > "May not machines carry out something which ought to be described as thinking but which is very different from what a man does?" > **— 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).