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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

Mathematical reasoning may be regarded.
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Mathematics Reason
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
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
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
Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition.
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Boundary Mathematics Religion Science
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
If a machine is expected to be infallible, it cannot also be intelligent.
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Expectation Hope 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
Codes are a puzzle. A game, just like any other game.
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Game Technology
The original question, ‘Can machines think?’ I believe to be too meaningless to deserve discussion.
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Believe Deserve Technology Thinking
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
No, I’m not interested in developing a powerful brain.
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Development Myself Powerful
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
Machines take me by surprise with great frequency.
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Greatness Myself Science Technology
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
Programming is a skill best acquired by practice and example rather than from books.
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Book Practice Skill Technology

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