Sometimes it is the people no one imagines anything of who do the things that no one can imagine.
ALAN TURINGSometimes it is the people no one imagines anything of who do the things that no one can imagine.
ALAN TURINGMy little computer said such a funny thing this morning.
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.
ALAN TURINGNo, I’m not interested in developing a powerful brain.
ALAN TURINGWe can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.
ALAN TURINGMathematical reasoning may be regarded rather schematically as the exercise of a combination of two facilities, which we may call intuition and ingenuity.
ALAN TURINGInstead 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.
ALAN TURINGWe may hope that machines will eventually compete with men in all purely intellectual fields.
ALAN TURINGMathematical reasoning may be regarded.
ALAN TURINGI’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.
ALAN TURINGIf a machine is expected to be infallible, it cannot also be intelligent.
ALAN TURINGI 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.
ALAN TURINGWe are not interested in the fact that the brain has the consistency of cold porridge.
ALAN TURINGThese 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.
ALAN TURINGThe 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.
ALAN TURINGScience is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition.
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