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The original question, ‘Can machines think?’ I believe to be too meaningless to deserve discussion.

Alan Turing

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
Programming is a skill best acquired by practice and example rather than from books.
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Book Practice Skill Technology
My little computer said such a funny thing this morning.
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Funny Morning Technology
Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition.
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Boundary Mathematics Religion Science
The original question, ‘Can machines think?’ I believe to be too meaningless to deserve discussion.
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Believe Deserve Technology Thinking
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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Funny Future Morning Technology Walk Woman
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
If a machine is expected to be infallible, it cannot also be intelligent.
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Expectation Hope Intelligence Technology
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
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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Development Myself Powerful
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
We may hope that machines will eventually compete with men in all purely intellectual fields.
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Competition Hope Intellectual Men 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
A very large part of space-time must be investigated, if reliable results are to be obtained.
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Result Space Time
No, I’m not interested in developing a powerful brain.
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Development Myself Powerful
Codes are a puzzle. A game, just like any other game.
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Game Technology

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