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

Alan Turing

Sometimes it is the people no one imagines anything of who do the things that no one can imagine.
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Believe Imagination Inspirational Motivational People
Mathematical reasoning may be regarded.
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Mathematics Reason
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
No, I’m not interested in developing a powerful brain.
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Development Myself Powerful
We may hope that machines will eventually compete with men in all purely intellectual fields.
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Competition Hope Intellectual Men 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
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
A very large part of space-time must be investigated, if reliable results are to be obtained.
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Result Space Time
We are not interested in the fact that the brain has the consistency of cold porridge.
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Food Human Technology
Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition.
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Boundary Mathematics Religion Science
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
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
Machines take me by surprise with great frequency.
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Greatness Myself Science Technology
Instead of trying to produce a programme to simulate the adult mind, why not rather try to produce one which simulates the child’s? If this were then subjected to an appropriate course of education one would obtain the adult brain.
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Children Education Mindset Technology

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