Machines take me by surprise with great frequency.
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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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 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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If a machine is expected to be infallible, it cannot also be intelligent.
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No, I’m not interested in developing a powerful brain.
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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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I believe that at the end of the century the use of words and general educated opinion will have altered so much that one will be able to speak of machines thinking without expecting to be contradicted.
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My little computer said such a funny thing this morning.
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Unless in communicating with it one says exactly what one means, trouble is bound to result.
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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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A very large part of space-time must be investigated, if reliable results are to be obtained.
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We are not interested in the fact that the brain has the consistency of cold porridge.
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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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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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Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition.
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