Detective Robert Nock Quotes in The Imitation Game (2014)

Alan Turing: [after telling the story] Now you decide: Am I a machine? Am I a human? Am I a war hero? Or am I a criminal?

Detective Robert Nock: I can't judge you.

Alan Turing: Well, then. You were of no help to me at all.

Alan Turing: [Explaining the Turing Test] "The Imitation Game."

Detective Robert Nock: Right, that's... that's what it's about?

Alan Turing: Would you like to play?

Detective Robert Nock: Play?

Alan Turing: It's a game. A test of sorts. For determining whether something is a... a machine or a human being.

Detective Robert Nock: How do I play?

Alan Turing: Well, there's a judge and a subject, and... the judge asks questions and, depending on the subject's answers, determines who he is talking with... what he is talking with, and, um... All you have to do is ask me a question.

Detective Robert Nock: Mr Turing, can I tell you a secret?

Alan Turing: I'm quite good with those.

Detective Robert Nock: I'm here to help you.

Alan Turing: Oh, clearly!

Detective Robert Nock: Can machines think?

Alan Turing: Oh, so you've read some of my published works?

Detective Robert Nock: What makes you say that?

Alan Turing: Oh, because I'm sitting in a police station, accused of entreating a young man to touch my penis, and you've just asked me if machines can think.

Detective Robert Nock: Well, can they? Could machines ever think as human beings do?

Alan Turing: Most people say not.

Detective Robert Nock: You're not most people.