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The original question, ‘Can machines think?’ I believe to be too meaningless to deserve discussion.

Alan Turing

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
Codes are a puzzle. A game, just like any other game.
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Game Technology
If a machine is expected to be infallible, it cannot also be intelligent.
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Expectation Hope Intelligence 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
Machines take me by surprise with great frequency.
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Greatness Myself Science Technology
Mathematical reasoning may be regarded.
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Mathematics Reason
Programming is a skill best acquired by practice and example rather than from books.
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Book Practice Skill Technology
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
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
Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition.
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Boundary Mathematics Religion Science
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
The original question, ‘Can machines think?’ I believe to be too meaningless to deserve discussion.
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Believe Deserve Technology Thinking
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
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
We may hope that machines will eventually compete with men in all purely intellectual fields.
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Competition Hope Intellectual Men Technology

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