Sometimes it is the people no one imagines anything of who do the things that no one can imagine.
ALAN TURINGThe Exclusion Principle is laid down purely for the benefit of the electrons themselves, who might be corrupted (and become dragons or demons) if allowed to associate too freely.
More Alan Turing Quotes
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We may hope that machines will eventually compete with men in all purely intellectual fields.
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Codes are a puzzle. A game, just like any other game.
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We are not interested in the fact that the brain has the consistency of cold porridge.
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The Exclusion Principle is laid down purely for the benefit of the electrons themselves, who might be corrupted (and become dragons or demons) if allowed to associate too freely.
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The original question, ‘Can machines think?’ I believe to be too meaningless to deserve discussion.
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One day ladies will take their computers for walks in the park and tell each other, “My little computer said such a funny thing this morning”.
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Up to a point, it is better to just let the snags [bugs] be there than to spend such time in design that there are none.
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Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition.
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My little computer said such a funny thing this morning.
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Programming is a skill best acquired by practice and example rather than from books.
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I believe that at the end of the century the use of words and general educated opinion will have altered so much that one will be able to speak of machines thinking without expecting to be contradicted.
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No, I’m not interested in developing a powerful brain. All I’m after is just a mediocre brain, something like the President of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company.
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Do you know why people like violence? It is because it feels good. Humans find violence deeply satisfying. But remove the satisfaction, and the act becomes hollow.
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Machines take me by surprise with great frequency.
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If a machine is expected to be infallible, it cannot also be intelligent.
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