Machines take me by surprise with great frequency.
ALAN TURINGDo 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.
More Alan Turing Quotes
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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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Sometimes it is the people no one imagines anything of who do the things that no one can imagine.
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Mathematical reasoning may be regarded.
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Codes are a puzzle. A game, just like any other game.
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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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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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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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We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.
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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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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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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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We may hope that machines will eventually compete with men in all purely intellectual fields.
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Instead 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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A very large part of space-time must be investigated, if reliable results are to be obtained.
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