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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.

Alan Turing

Machines take me by surprise with great frequency.
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Greatness Myself Science Technology
We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.
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Distance Need Travel Work
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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Evidence Ideas Science
Codes are a puzzle. A game, just like any other game.
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Game Technology
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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Freedom Principle Science
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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Children Education Mindset Technology
No, I’m not interested in developing a powerful brain.
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Development Myself Powerful
Unless in communicating with it one says exactly what one means, trouble is bound to result.
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Communication Computer Funny Result Trouble
The original question, ‘Can machines think?’ I believe to be too meaningless to deserve discussion.
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Believe Deserve Technology Thinking
Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition.
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Boundary Mathematics Religion Science
A computer would deserve to be called intelligent if it could deceive a human into believing that it was human.
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Believe Human Intelligence Technology
My little computer said such a funny thing this morning.
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Funny Morning Technology
Mathematical reasoning may be regarded.
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Mathematics Reason
If a machine is expected to be infallible, it cannot also be intelligent.
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Expectation Hope Intelligence Technology
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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Future Lie Myself Scare Yourself
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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Exercise Intuition Mathematics Reason

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