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We may hope that machines will eventually compete with men in all purely intellectual fields.

Alan Turing

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
The original question, ‘Can machines think?’ I believe to be too meaningless to deserve discussion.
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Believe Deserve Technology Thinking
A very large part of space-time must be investigated, if reliable results are to be obtained.
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Result Space Time
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
Programming is a skill best acquired by practice and example rather than from books.
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Book Practice Skill Technology
Unless in communicating with it one says exactly what one means, trouble is bound to result.
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Communication Computer Funny Result Trouble
We are not interested in the fact that the brain has the consistency of cold porridge.
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Food Human Technology
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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Freedom Principle Science
Codes are a puzzle. A game, just like any other game.
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Game Technology
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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Development Myself Powerful
If a machine is expected to be infallible, it cannot also be intelligent.
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Expectation Hope Intelligence Technology
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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Children Education Mindset Technology
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
Sometimes it is the people no one imagines anything of who do the things that no one can imagine.
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Believe Imagination Inspirational Motivational People
Machines take me by surprise with great frequency.
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Greatness Myself Science Technology
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

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