Mathematical reasoning may be regarded rather schematically as the exercise of a combination of two facilities, which we may call intuition and ingenuity.
ALAN TURINGMathematical reasoning may be regarded.
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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Machines take me by surprise with great frequency.
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The original question, ‘Can machines think?’ I believe to be too meaningless to deserve discussion.
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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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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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Unless in communicating with it one says exactly what one means, trouble is bound to result.
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One day ladies will take their computers for walks in the park and tell each other, “My little computer said such a funny thing this morning”.
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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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Programming is a skill best acquired by practice and example rather than from books.
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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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No, I’m not interested in developing a powerful brain.
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We are not interested in the fact that the brain has the consistency of cold porridge.
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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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A computer would deserve to be called intelligent if it could deceive a human into believing that it was human.
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