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.
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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Codes are a puzzle. A game, just like any other game.
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The original question, ‘Can machines think?’ I believe to be too meaningless to deserve discussion.
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Unless in communicating with it one says exactly what one means, trouble is bound to result.
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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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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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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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Mathematical reasoning may be regarded.
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Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition.
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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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My little computer said such a funny thing this morning.
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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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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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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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