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Unless in communicating with it one says exactly what one means, trouble is bound to result.

Alan Turing

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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Freedom Principle Science
Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition.
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Boundary Mathematics Religion Science
No, I’m not interested in developing a powerful brain.
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Development Myself Powerful
Unless in communicating with it one says exactly what one means, trouble is bound to result.
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Communication Computer Funny Result Trouble
Machines take me by surprise with great frequency.
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Greatness Myself Science Technology
Programming is a skill best acquired by practice and example rather than from books.
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Book Practice Skill Technology
A man provided with paper, pencil, and rubber, and subject to strict discipline, is in effect a universal machine.
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Discipline Education Men
I’m afraid that the following syllogism may be used by some in the future. Turing believes machines think Turing lies with men Therefore machines do not think Yours in distress, Alan.
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Future Lie Myself Scare Yourself
A very large part of space-time must be investigated, if reliable results are to be obtained.
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Result Space Time
If a machine is expected to be infallible, it cannot also be intelligent.
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Expectation Hope Intelligence Technology
The original question, ‘Can machines think?’ I believe to be too meaningless to deserve discussion.
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Believe Deserve Technology Thinking
Mathematical reasoning may be regarded rather schematically as the exercise of a combination of two facilities, which we may call intuition and ingenuity.
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Exercise Intuition Mathematics Reason
Mathematical reasoning may be regarded.
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Mathematics Reason
We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.
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Distance Need Travel Work
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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Design Technology Time
A computer would deserve to be called intelligent if it could deceive a human into believing that it was human.
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Believe Human Intelligence Technology

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