Programming is a skill best acquired by practice and example rather than from books.
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.
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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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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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Unless in communicating with it one says exactly what one means, trouble is bound to result.
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The original question, ‘Can machines think?’ I believe to be too meaningless to deserve discussion.
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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 may hope that machines will eventually compete with men in all purely intellectual fields.
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Machines take me by surprise with great frequency.
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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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We are not interested in the fact that the brain has the consistency of cold porridge.
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My little computer said such a funny thing this morning.
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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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We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.
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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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If a machine is expected to be infallible, it cannot also be intelligent.
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