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

Alan Turing

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
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
A very large part of space-time must be investigated, if reliable results are to be obtained.
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Result Space Time
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
We are not interested in the fact that the brain has the consistency of cold porridge.
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Food Human Technology
My little computer said such a funny thing this morning.
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Funny Morning 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
Mathematical reasoning may be regarded.
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Mathematics Reason
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
Machines take me by surprise with great frequency.
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Greatness Myself Science Technology
No, I’m not interested in developing a powerful brain.
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Development Myself Powerful
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
If a machine is expected to be infallible, it cannot also be intelligent.
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Expectation Hope Intelligence Technology
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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Evidence Ideas Science
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

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