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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We are not interested in the fact that the brain has the consistency of cold porridge.
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Codes are a puzzle. A game, just like any other game.
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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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The original question, ‘Can machines think?’ I believe to be too meaningless to deserve discussion.
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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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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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A computer would deserve to be called intelligent if it could deceive a human into believing that it was human.
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Programming is a skill best acquired by practice and example rather than from books.
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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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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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Machines take me by surprise with great frequency.
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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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Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition.
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No, I’m not interested in developing a powerful brain.
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