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 TURINGMy little computer said such a funny thing this morning.
More Alan Turing Quotes
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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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A man provided with paper, pencil, and rubber, and subject to strict discipline, is in effect a universal machine.
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Unless in communicating with it one says exactly what one means, trouble is bound to result.
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No, I’m not interested in developing a powerful brain.
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Machines take me by surprise with great frequency.
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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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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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Programming is a skill best acquired by practice and example rather than from books.
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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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We are not interested in the fact that the brain has the consistency of cold porridge.
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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 can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.
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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 may hope that machines will eventually compete with men in all purely intellectual fields.
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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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