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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.

Alan Turing

Codes are a puzzle. A game, just like any other game.
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Game Technology
We may hope that machines will eventually compete with men in all purely intellectual fields.
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Competition Hope Intellectual Men Technology
If a machine is expected to be infallible, it cannot also be intelligent.
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Expectation Hope Intelligence Technology
Programming is a skill best acquired by practice and example rather than from books.
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Book Practice Skill Technology
No, I’m not interested in developing a powerful brain.
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Development Myself Powerful
Sometimes it is the people no one imagines anything of who do the things that no one can imagine.
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Believe Imagination Inspirational Motivational People
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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Machines take me by surprise with great frequency.
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Greatness Myself Science Technology
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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Funny Future Morning Technology Walk Woman
We are not interested in the fact that the brain has the consistency of cold porridge.
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Food Human Technology
We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.
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Distance Need Travel Work
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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Carry Explanation Human Ideas Technology
My little computer said such a funny thing this morning.
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Funny Morning Technology
Mathematical reasoning may be regarded.
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Mathematics Reason
Unless in communicating with it one says exactly what one means, trouble is bound to result.
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Communication Computer Funny Result Trouble
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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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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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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