Machines take me by surprise with great frequency.
ALAN TURINGNo, I’m not interested in developing a powerful brain.
More Alan Turing Quotes
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We are not interested in the fact that the brain has the consistency of cold porridge.
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Unless in communicating with it one says exactly what one means, trouble is bound to result.
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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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Programming is a skill best acquired by practice and example rather than from books.
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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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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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Mathematical reasoning may be regarded.
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Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition.
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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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No, I’m not interested in developing a powerful brain.
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My little computer said such a funny thing this morning.
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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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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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A very large part of space-time must be investigated, if reliable results are to be obtained.
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Codes are a puzzle. A game, just like any other game.
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