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.
ALAN TURINGThe 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.
ALAN TURINGScience is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition.
ALAN TURINGA computer would deserve to be called intelligent if it could deceive a human into believing that it was human.
ALAN TURINGMachines take me by surprise with great frequency.
ALAN TURINGUnless in communicating with it one says exactly what one means, trouble is bound to result.
ALAN TURINGIf a machine is expected to be infallible, it cannot also be intelligent.
ALAN TURINGDo 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.
ALAN TURINGOne 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”.
ALAN TURINGProgramming is a skill best acquired by practice and example rather than from books.
ALAN TURINGI’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.
ALAN TURINGA man provided with paper, pencil, and rubber, and subject to strict discipline, is in effect a universal machine.
ALAN TURINGWe can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.
ALAN TURINGWe may hope that machines will eventually compete with men in all purely intellectual fields.
ALAN TURINGSometimes it is the people no one imagines anything of who do the things that no one can imagine.
ALAN TURINGI believe that at the end of the century the use of words and general educated opinion will have altered so much that one will be able to speak of machines thinking without expecting to be contradicted.
ALAN TURINGThe 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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