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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

If a machine is expected to be infallible, it cannot also be intelligent.
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Expectation Hope Intelligence Technology
Machines take me by surprise with great frequency.
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Greatness Myself Science Technology
Programming is a skill best acquired by practice and example rather than from books.
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Book Practice Skill 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
No, I’m not interested in developing a powerful brain.
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Development Myself Powerful
A very large part of space-time must be investigated, if reliable results are to be obtained.
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Result Space Time
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
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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Carry Explanation Human Ideas Technology
We may hope that machines will eventually compete with men in all purely intellectual fields.
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Competition Hope Intellectual Men Technology
Mathematical reasoning may be regarded.
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Mathematics Reason
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
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
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
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
Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition.
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Boundary Mathematics Religion Science
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

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