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”.
ALAN TURING
The original question, ‘Can machines think?’ I believe to be too meaningless to deserve discussion.
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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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![Alan Turing Quote - 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.](https://minimalistquotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/11/these-disturbing-phenomena-extra-sensory-perceptio.jpg)
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Mathematical reasoning may be regarded.
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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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A computer would deserve to be called intelligent if it could deceive a human into believing that it was human.
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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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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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A very large part of space-time must be investigated, if reliable results are to be obtained.
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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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Unless in communicating with it one says exactly what one means, trouble is bound to result.
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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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