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

Alan Turing

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
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
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
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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Future Lie Myself Scare Yourself
The original question, ‘Can machines think?’ I believe to be too meaningless to deserve discussion.
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Believe Deserve Technology Thinking
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
We are not interested in the fact that the brain has the consistency of cold porridge.
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Food Human Technology
Machines take me by surprise with great frequency.
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Greatness Myself Science Technology
We may hope that machines will eventually compete with men in all purely intellectual fields.
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Competition Hope Intellectual Men Technology
If a machine is expected to be infallible, it cannot also be intelligent.
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Expectation Hope Intelligence Technology
My little computer said such a funny thing this morning.
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Funny Morning Technology
A very large part of space-time must be investigated, if reliable results are to be obtained.
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Result Space Time
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
Programming is a skill best acquired by practice and example rather than from books.
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Book Practice Skill Technology
Codes are a puzzle. A game, just like any other game.
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Game Technology
A man provided with paper, pencil, and rubber, and subject to strict discipline, is in effect a universal machine.
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Discipline Education Men

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