Mathematical reasoning may be regarded rather schematically as the exercise of a combination of two facilities, which we may call intuition and ingenuity.
ALAN TURINGNo, 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.
More Alan Turing Quotes
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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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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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Mathematical reasoning may be regarded.
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The original question, ‘Can machines think?’ I believe to be too meaningless to deserve discussion.
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My little computer said such a funny thing this morning.
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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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Sometimes it is the people no one imagines anything of who do the things that no one can imagine.
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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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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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A man provided with paper, pencil, and rubber, and subject to strict discipline, is in effect a universal machine.
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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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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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Machines take me by surprise with great frequency.
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If a machine is expected to be infallible, it cannot also be intelligent.
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