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

Alan Turing

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
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
Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition.
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Boundary Mathematics Religion Science
Programming is a skill best acquired by practice and example rather than from books.
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Book Practice Skill 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
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
If a machine is expected to be infallible, it cannot also be intelligent.
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Expectation Hope Intelligence Technology
Codes are a puzzle. A game, just like any other game.
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Game 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
Mathematical reasoning may be regarded.
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Mathematics Reason
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
Do you know why people like violence? It is because it feels good. Humans find violence deeply satisfying. But remove the satisfaction, and the act becomes hollow.
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Act Feeling Goodness People Satisfaction Violence
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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Exercise Intuition Mathematics Reason
No, I’m not interested in developing a powerful brain.
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Development Myself Powerful
We may hope that machines will eventually compete with men in all purely intellectual fields.
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Competition Hope Intellectual Men Technology
Machines take me by surprise with great frequency.
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Greatness Myself Science Technology

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