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.
ALAN TURINGThe original question, ‘Can machines think?’ I believe to be too meaningless to deserve discussion.
More Alan Turing Quotes
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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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Programming is a skill best acquired by practice and example rather than from books.
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A computer would deserve to be called intelligent if it could deceive a human into believing that it was human.
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Unless in communicating with it one says exactly what one means, trouble is bound to result.
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The original question, ‘Can machines think?’ I believe to be too meaningless to deserve discussion.
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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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We may hope that machines will eventually compete with men in all purely intellectual fields.
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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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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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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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No, I’m not interested in developing a powerful brain.
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If a machine is expected to be infallible, it cannot also be intelligent.
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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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Mathematical reasoning may be regarded.
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