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.
ALAN TURINGOne 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”.
More Alan Turing Quotes
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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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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 original question, ‘Can machines think?’ I believe to be too meaningless to deserve discussion.
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My little computer said such a funny thing this morning.
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Programming is a skill best acquired by practice and example rather than from books.
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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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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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A very large part of space-time must be investigated, if reliable results are to be obtained.
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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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Unless in communicating with it one says exactly what one means, trouble is bound to result.
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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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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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Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition.
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Machines take me by surprise with great frequency.
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We may hope that machines will eventually compete with men in all purely intellectual fields.
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