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 TURINGSometimes it is the people no one imagines anything of who do the things that no one can imagine.
More Alan Turing Quotes
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We may hope that machines will eventually compete with men in all purely intellectual fields.
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Programming is a skill best acquired by practice and example rather than from books.
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Machines take me by surprise with great frequency.
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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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A very large part of space-time must be investigated, if reliable results are to be obtained.
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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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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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The original question, ‘Can machines think?’ I believe to be too meaningless to deserve discussion.
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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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Mathematical reasoning may be regarded.
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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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Unless in communicating with it one says exactly what one means, trouble is bound to result.
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If a machine is expected to be infallible, it cannot also be intelligent.
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My little computer said such a funny thing this morning.
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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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