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Programming is a skill best acquired by practice and example rather than from books.

Alan Turing

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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Design Technology Time
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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Funny Future Morning Technology Walk Woman
No, I’m not interested in developing a powerful brain.
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Development Myself Powerful
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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Carry Explanation Human Ideas Technology
Machines take me by surprise with great frequency.
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Greatness Myself Science Technology
We are not interested in the fact that the brain has the consistency of cold porridge.
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Food Human Technology
Codes are a puzzle. A game, just like any other game.
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Game Technology
Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition.
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Boundary Mathematics Religion Science
Mathematical reasoning may be regarded.
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Mathematics Reason
We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.
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Distance Need Travel Work
We may hope that machines will eventually compete with men in all purely intellectual fields.
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Competition Hope Intellectual Men Technology
A man provided with paper, pencil, and rubber, and subject to strict discipline, is in effect a universal machine.
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Discipline Education Men
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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Act Feeling Goodness People Satisfaction Violence
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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Exercise Intuition Mathematics Reason
I’m afraid that the following syllogism may be used by some in the future. Turing believes machines think Turing lies with men Therefore machines do not think Yours in distress, Alan.
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Future Lie Myself Scare Yourself
The original question, ‘Can machines think?’ I believe to be too meaningless to deserve discussion.
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Believe Deserve Technology Thinking

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