Machines take me by surprise with great frequency.
ALAN TURINGNo, I’m not interested in developing a powerful brain.
More Alan Turing Quotes
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Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition.
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Unless in communicating with it one says exactly what one means, trouble is bound to result.
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If a machine is expected to be infallible, it cannot also be intelligent.
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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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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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A man provided with paper, pencil, and rubber, and subject to strict discipline, is in effect a universal machine.
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We are not interested in the fact that the brain has the consistency of cold porridge.
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Sometimes it is the people no one imagines anything of who do the things that no one can imagine.
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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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The idea behind digital computers may be explained by saying that these machines are intended to carry out any operations which could be done by a human computer.
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A computer would deserve to be called intelligent if it could deceive a human into believing that it was human.
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No, I’m not interested in developing a powerful brain.
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My little computer said such a funny thing this morning.
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A very large part of space-time must be investigated, if reliable results are to be obtained.
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The original question, ‘Can machines think?’ I believe to be too meaningless to deserve discussion.
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