Programming is a skill best acquired by practice and example rather than from books.
ALAN TURINGWe may hope that machines will eventually compete with men in all purely intellectual fields.
More Alan Turing Quotes
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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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Mathematical reasoning may be regarded.
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Unless in communicating with it one says exactly what one means, trouble is bound to result.
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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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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’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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We are not interested in the fact that the brain has the consistency of cold porridge.
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Mathematical reasoning may be regarded rather schematically as the exercise of a combination of two facilities, which we may call intuition and ingenuity.
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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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Codes are a puzzle. A game, just like any other game.
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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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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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My little computer said such a funny thing this morning.
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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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