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.
ALAN TURINGThese 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.
More Alan Turing Quotes
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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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If a machine is expected to be infallible, it cannot also be intelligent.
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Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition.
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We may hope that machines will eventually compete with men in all purely intellectual fields.
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We are not interested in the fact that the brain has the consistency of cold porridge.
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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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Codes are a puzzle. A game, just like any other game.
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No, I’m not interested in developing a powerful brain.
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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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Machines take me by surprise with great frequency.
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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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A computer would deserve to be called intelligent if it could deceive a human into believing that it was human.
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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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Sometimes it is the people no one imagines anything of who do the things that no one can imagine.
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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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