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.
ALAN TURINGIf a machine is expected to be infallible, it cannot also be intelligent.
More Alan Turing Quotes
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No, I’m not interested in developing a powerful brain.
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Machines take me by surprise with great frequency.
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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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Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition.
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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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A computer would deserve to be called intelligent if it could deceive a human into believing that it was human.
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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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We may hope that machines will eventually compete with men in all purely intellectual fields.
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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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We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.
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Programming is a skill best acquired by practice and example rather than from books.
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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 original question, ‘Can machines think?’ I believe to be too meaningless to deserve discussion.
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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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Mathematical reasoning may be regarded.
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