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.
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.
More Alan Turing Quotes
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A very large part of space-time must be investigated, if reliable results are to be obtained.
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My little computer said such a funny thing this morning.
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No, I’m not interested in developing a powerful brain.
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Programming is a skill best acquired by practice and example rather than from books.
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Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition.
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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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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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Unless in communicating with it one says exactly what one means, trouble is bound to result.
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Machines take me by surprise with great frequency.
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We are not interested in the fact that the brain has the consistency of cold porridge.
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We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.
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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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Codes are a puzzle. A game, just like any other game.
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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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A man provided with paper, pencil, and rubber, and subject to strict discipline, is in effect a universal machine.
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