A man provided with paper, pencil, and rubber, and subject to strict discipline, is in effect a universal machine.
ALAN TURINGNo, I’m not interested in developing a powerful brain.
More Alan Turing Quotes
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We may hope that machines will eventually compete with men in all purely intellectual fields.
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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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We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.
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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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Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition.
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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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The original question, ‘Can machines think?’ I believe to be too meaningless to deserve discussion.
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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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Sometimes it is the people no one imagines anything of who do the things that no one can imagine.
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A computer would deserve to be called intelligent if it could deceive a human into believing that it was human.
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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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No, I’m not interested in developing a powerful brain.
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Programming is a skill best acquired by practice and example rather than from books.
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Machines take me by surprise with great frequency.
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