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.
ALAN TURINGNo, I’m not interested in developing a powerful brain.
More Alan Turing Quotes
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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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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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No, I’m not interested in developing a powerful brain.
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Unless in communicating with it one says exactly what one means, trouble is bound to result.
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A man provided with paper, pencil, and rubber, and subject to strict discipline, is in effect a universal machine.
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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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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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If a machine is expected to be infallible, it cannot also be intelligent.
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No, I’m not interested in developing a powerful brain. All I’m after is just a mediocre brain, something like the President of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company.
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Machines take me by surprise with great frequency.
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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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Sometimes it is the people no one imagines anything of who do the things that no one can imagine.
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We may hope that machines will eventually compete with men in all purely intellectual fields.
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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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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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