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We are not interested in the fact that the brain has the consistency of cold porridge.

Alan Turing

Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition.
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Boundary Mathematics Religion Science
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
We may hope that machines will eventually compete with men in all purely intellectual fields.
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Competition Hope Intellectual Men 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. All I’m after is just a mediocre brain, something like the President of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company.
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Development Myself Powerful
We are not interested in the fact that the brain has the consistency of cold porridge.
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Food Human Technology
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
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
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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Believe Education End Expectation Oneself Thinking Word
Mathematical reasoning may be regarded.
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Mathematics Reason
If a machine is expected to be infallible, it cannot also be intelligent.
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Expectation Hope Intelligence Technology
Codes are a puzzle. A game, just like any other game.
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Game Technology
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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Future Lie Myself Scare Yourself
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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Design Technology Time
Machines take me by surprise with great frequency.
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Greatness Myself Science Technology
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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Exercise Intuition Mathematics Reason

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