Codes are a puzzle. A game, just like any other game.
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More Alan Turing Quotes
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Codes are a puzzle. A game, just like any other game.
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If a machine is expected to be infallible, it cannot also be intelligent.
ALAN TURINGIf a machine is expected to be infallible, it cannot also be intelligent.
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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 TURINGUp 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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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.
ALAN TURINGNo, 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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Programming is a skill best acquired by practice and example rather than from books.
ALAN TURINGProgramming is a skill best acquired by practice and example rather than from books.
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Machines take me by surprise with great frequency.
ALAN TURINGMachines take me by surprise with great frequency.
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A man provided with paper, pencil, and rubber, and subject to strict discipline, is in effect a universal machine.
ALAN TURINGA man provided with paper, pencil, and rubber, and subject to strict discipline, is in effect a universal machine.
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We are not interested in the fact that the brain has the consistency of cold porridge.
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A computer would deserve to be called intelligent if it could deceive a human into believing that it was human.
ALAN TURINGA computer would deserve to be called intelligent if it could deceive a human into believing that it was human.
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A very large part of space-time must be investigated, if reliable results are to be obtained.
ALAN TURINGA very large part of space-time must be investigated, if reliable results are to be obtained.
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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 rather schematically as the exercise of a combination of two facilities, which we may call intuition and ingenuity.
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The original question, ‘Can machines think?’ I believe to be too meaningless to deserve discussion.
ALAN TURINGThe original question, ‘Can machines think?’ I believe to be too meaningless to deserve discussion.
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Sometimes it is the people no one imagines anything of who do the things that no one can imagine.
ALAN TURINGSometimes it is the people no one imagines anything of who do the things that no one can imagine.
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Mathematical reasoning may be regarded.
ALAN TURINGMathematical reasoning may be regarded.
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We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.
ALAN TURINGWe can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.
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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.
ALAN TURINGInstead 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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