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

Alan Turing

My little computer said such a funny thing this morning.
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Funny Morning Technology
No, I’m not interested in developing a powerful brain.
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Development Myself Powerful
The original question, ‘Can machines think?’ I believe to be too meaningless to deserve discussion.
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Believe Deserve Technology Thinking
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
Machines take me by surprise with great frequency.
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Greatness Myself Science Technology
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
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
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
If a machine is expected to be infallible, it cannot also be intelligent.
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Expectation Hope Intelligence Technology
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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Believe Education End Expectation Oneself Thinking Word
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
A computer would deserve to be called intelligent if it could deceive a human into believing that it was human.
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Believe Human Intelligence Technology
Codes are a puzzle. A game, just like any other game.
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Game Technology
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
We are not interested in the fact that the brain has the consistency of cold porridge.
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Food Human Technology
Programming is a skill best acquired by practice and example rather than from books.
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Book Practice Skill Technology

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