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We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.

Alan Turing

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
These disturbing phenomena [Extra Sensory Perception] seem to deny all our scientific ideas. How we should like to discredit them! Unfortunately the statistical evidence, at least for telepathy, is overwhelming.
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Evidence Ideas Science
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
My little computer said such a funny thing this morning.
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Funny Morning Technology
Codes are a puzzle. A game, just like any other game.
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Game Technology
Programming is a skill best acquired by practice and example rather than from books.
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Book Practice Skill Technology
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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Act Feeling Goodness People Satisfaction Violence
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
We may hope that machines will eventually compete with men in all purely intellectual fields.
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Competition Hope Intellectual Men Technology
We are not interested in the fact that the brain has the consistency of cold porridge.
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Food Human Technology
Machines take me by surprise with great frequency.
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Greatness Myself Science Technology
Mathematical reasoning may be regarded.
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Mathematics Reason
A very large part of space-time must be investigated, if reliable results are to be obtained.
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Result Space 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
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
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

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