We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.
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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Codes are a puzzle. A game, just like any other game.
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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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Programming is a skill best acquired by practice and example rather than from books.
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The original question, ‘Can machines think?’ I believe to be too meaningless to deserve discussion.
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No, I’m not interested in developing a powerful brain.
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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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Machines take me by surprise with great frequency.
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Unless in communicating with it one says exactly what one means, trouble is bound to result.
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Mathematical reasoning may be regarded.
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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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We are not interested in the fact that the brain has the consistency of cold porridge.
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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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Sometimes it is the people no one imagines anything of who do the things that no one can imagine.
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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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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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