Lewis Mumford (1895–1990) American historian, sociologist, philosopher of technology, and literary critic
Source: The Culture of Cities (1938), Ch. 7, sct. 16
“A man provided with paper, pencil, and rubber, and subject to strict discipline, is in effect a universal machine.”
"Intelligent Machinery: A Report by A. M. Turing," (Summer 1948), submitted to the National Physical Laboratory (1948) and published in Key Papers: Cybernetics, ed. C. R. Evans and A. D. J. Robertson (1968) and, in variant form, in Machine Intelligence 5, ed. B. Meltzer and D. Michie (1969).
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