Codes are a puzzle. A game, just like any other game.
ALAN TURINGCodes are a puzzle. A game, just like any other game.
ALAN TURINGThe 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.
ALAN TURINGWe may hope that machines will eventually compete with men in all purely intellectual fields.
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.
ALAN TURINGThe original question, ‘Can machines think?’ I believe to be too meaningless to deserve discussion.
ALAN TURINGUnless in communicating with it one says exactly what one means, trouble is bound to result.
ALAN TURINGUp 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 TURINGNo, 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 TURINGIf a machine is expected to be infallible, it cannot also be intelligent.
ALAN TURINGWe are not interested in the fact that the brain has the consistency of cold porridge.
ALAN TURINGI 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.
ALAN TURINGA man provided with paper, pencil, and rubber, and subject to strict discipline, is in effect a universal machine.
ALAN TURINGNo, I’m not interested in developing a powerful brain.
ALAN TURINGScience is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition.
ALAN TURINGSometimes it is the people no one imagines anything of who do the things that no one can imagine.
ALAN TURINGInstead 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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