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A computer would deserve to be called intelligent if it could deceive a human into believing that it was human.

Alan Turing

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
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
Machines take me by surprise with great frequency.
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Greatness Myself Science 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
Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition.
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Boundary Mathematics Religion Science
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
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
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 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
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 are not interested in the fact that the brain has the consistency of cold porridge.
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Food Human Technology
No, I’m not interested in developing a powerful brain.
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Development Myself Powerful
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
My little computer said such a funny thing this morning.
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Funny Morning 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

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