A man provided with paper, pencil, and rubber, and subject to strict discipline, is in effect a universal machine.
ALAN TURINGA man provided with paper, pencil, and rubber, and subject to strict discipline, is in effect a universal machine.
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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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Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition.
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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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We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.
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Programming is a skill best acquired by practice and example rather than from books.
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Unless in communicating with it one says exactly what one means, trouble is bound to result.
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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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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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Instead of trying to produce a programme to simulate the adult mind, why not rather try to produce one which simulates the child’s? If this were then subjected to an appropriate course of education one would obtain the adult brain.
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No, I’m not interested in developing a powerful brain.
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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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Machines take me by surprise with great frequency.
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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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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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We are not interested in the fact that the brain has the consistency of cold porridge.
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