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

Alan Turing

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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Funny Future Morning Technology Walk Woman
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
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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Freedom Principle Science
We are not interested in the fact that the brain has the consistency of cold porridge.
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Food Human Technology
Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition.
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Boundary Mathematics Religion Science
A very large part of space-time must be investigated, if reliable results are to be obtained.
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Result Space Time
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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Act Feeling Goodness People Satisfaction Violence
If a machine is expected to be infallible, it cannot also be intelligent.
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Expectation Hope Intelligence Technology
We may hope that machines will eventually compete with men in all purely intellectual fields.
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Competition Hope Intellectual Men Technology
Programming is a skill best acquired by practice and example rather than from books.
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Book Practice Skill Technology
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
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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Development Myself Powerful
A computer would deserve to be called intelligent if it could deceive a human into believing that it was human.
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Believe Human Intelligence 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
My little computer said such a funny thing this morning.
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Funny Morning Technology
The original question, ‘Can machines think?’ I believe to be too meaningless to deserve discussion.
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