A man provided with paper, pencil, and rubber, and subject to strict discipline, is in effect a universal machine.
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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No, I’m not interested in developing a powerful brain.
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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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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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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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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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Mathematical reasoning may be regarded.
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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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Codes are a puzzle. A game, just like any other game.
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We are not interested in the fact that the brain has the consistency of cold porridge.
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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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We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.
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If a machine is expected to be infallible, it cannot also be intelligent.
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Machines take me by surprise with great frequency.
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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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