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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.

Alan Turing

A very large part of space-time must be investigated, if reliable results are to be obtained.
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Result Space Time
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
My little computer said such a funny thing this morning.
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Funny Morning Technology
Mathematical reasoning may be regarded rather schematically as the exercise of a combination of two facilities, which we may call intuition and ingenuity.
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Exercise Intuition Mathematics Reason
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
Programming is a skill best acquired by practice and example rather than from books.
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Book Practice Skill Technology
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
The original question, ‘Can machines think?’ I believe to be too meaningless to deserve discussion.
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Believe Deserve Technology Thinking
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

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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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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