# These machines are intended to carry out any operations which could be done by a human… by Alan Turing > "These machines are intended to carry out any operations which could be done by a human computer." > **— 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).