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 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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No, I’m not interested in developing a powerful brain.
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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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A computer would deserve to be called intelligent if it could deceive a human into believing that it was human.
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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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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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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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Machines take me by surprise with great frequency.
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Programming is a skill best acquired by practice and example rather than from books.
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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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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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My little computer said such a funny thing this morning.
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The original question, ‘Can machines think?’ I believe to be too meaningless to deserve discussion.
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We may hope that machines will eventually compete with men in all purely intellectual fields.
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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 very large part of space-time must be investigated, if reliable results are to be obtained.
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