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

Alan Turing

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
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
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
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
Instead of trying to produce a programme to simulate the adult mind, why not rather try to produce one which simulates the child’s? If this were then subjected to an appropriate course of education one would obtain the adult brain.
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Children Education Mindset 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
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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Evidence Ideas Science
Programming is a skill best acquired by practice and example rather than from books.
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Book Practice Skill Technology
We are not interested in the fact that the brain has the consistency of cold porridge.
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Food Human Technology
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
Mathematical reasoning may be regarded.
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Mathematics Reason
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
My little computer said such a funny thing this morning.
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Funny Morning 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

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