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No, I’m not interested in developing a powerful brain.

Alan Turing

If a machine is expected to be infallible, it cannot also be intelligent.
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Expectation Hope Intelligence Technology
We are not interested in the fact that the brain has the consistency of cold porridge.
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Food Human Technology
The original question, ‘Can machines think?’ I believe to be too meaningless to deserve discussion.
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Believe Deserve Technology Thinking
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
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
Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition.
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Boundary Mathematics Religion Science
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
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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Children Education Mindset Technology
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
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
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
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
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

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