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Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition.

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
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
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
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
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
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
No, I’m not interested in developing a powerful brain.
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Development Myself Powerful
My little computer said such a funny thing this morning.
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Funny Morning 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
I 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.
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Believe Education End Expectation Oneself Thinking Word
We are not interested in the fact that the brain has the consistency of cold porridge.
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Food Human 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
Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition.
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