A man provided with paper, pencil, and rubber, and subject to strict discipline, is in effect a universal machine.
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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Sometimes it is the people no one imagines anything of who do the things that no one can imagine.
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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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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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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 may hope that machines will eventually compete with men in all purely intellectual fields.
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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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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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We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.
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If a machine is expected to be infallible, it cannot also be intelligent.
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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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My little computer said such a funny thing this morning.
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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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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 computer would deserve to be called intelligent if it could deceive a human into believing that it was human.
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Codes are a puzzle. A game, just like any other game.
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