Sometimes it is the people no one imagines anything of who do the things that no one can imagine.
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.
More Alan Turing Quotes
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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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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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No, I’m not interested in developing a powerful brain.
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My little computer said such a funny thing this morning.
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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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The original question, ‘Can machines think?’ I believe to be too meaningless to deserve discussion.
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Mathematical reasoning may be regarded.
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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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We are not interested in the fact that the brain has the consistency of cold porridge.
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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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A very large part of space-time must be investigated, if reliable results are to be obtained.
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Unless in communicating with it one says exactly what one means, trouble is bound to result.
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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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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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