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

Alan Turing

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
Programming is a skill best acquired by practice and example rather than from books.
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Book Practice Skill Technology
We are not interested in the fact that the brain has the consistency of cold porridge.
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Food Human 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
My little computer said such a funny thing this morning.
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Funny Morning Technology
I believe that at the end of the century the use of words and general educated opinion will have altered so much that one will be able to speak of machines thinking without expecting to be contradicted.
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Believe Education End Expectation Oneself Thinking Word
A very large part of space-time must be investigated, if reliable results are to be obtained.
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Result Space Time
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
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
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
Codes are a puzzle. A game, just like any other game.
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Game 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
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
Mathematical reasoning may be regarded.
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Mathematics Reason

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