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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

My little computer said such a funny thing this morning.
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Funny Morning Technology
The original question, ‘Can machines think?’ I believe to be too meaningless to deserve discussion.
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Believe Deserve Technology Thinking
A man provided with paper, pencil, and rubber, and subject to strict discipline, is in effect a universal machine.
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Discipline Education Men
We may hope that machines will eventually compete with men in all purely intellectual fields.
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Competition Hope Intellectual Men Technology
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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Carry Explanation Human Ideas Technology
Programming is a skill best acquired by practice and example rather than from books.
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Book Practice Skill 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
If a machine is expected to be infallible, it cannot also be intelligent.
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Expectation Hope Intelligence 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
A very large part of space-time must be investigated, if reliable results are to be obtained.
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Result Space Time
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
Mathematical reasoning may be regarded.
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Mathematics Reason
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
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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Design Technology Time
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

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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