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“A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”
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“In 1950 he was hardly likely to be on trial for heresy. But he certainly felt himself up against an irrational, superstitious barrier, and his predisposition was to defy”
― Alan Turing: The Enigma
― Alan Turing: The Enigma
“Perhaps this was the most surprising thing about Alan Turing. Despite all he had done in the war, and all the struggles with stupidity, he still did not think of intellectuals or scientists as forming a superior class.”
― Alan Turing: The Enigma
― Alan Turing: The Enigma
“If a machine is expected to be infallible, it cannot also be intelligent.”
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“I am not very impressed with theological arguments whatever they may be used to support. Such arguments have often been found unsatisfactory in the past. In the time of Galileo it was argued that the texts, 'And the sun stood still... and hasted not to go down about a whole day' (Joshua x. 13) and 'He laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not move at any time' (Psalm cv. 5) were an adequate refutation of the Copernican theory.”
― Computing machinery and intelligence
― Computing machinery and intelligence
Alan Turing
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