"A man provided with paper, pencil, and rubber,……" — Alan Turing
"A man provided with paper, pencil, and rubber, and subject to strict discipline, is in effect a universal machine."
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32 Quotes by Alan Turing
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We may hope that machines will eventually compete with men in all purely intellectual fields. But which are the best…
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Up to a point, it is better to just let the snags [bugs] be there than to spend such time…
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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…
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I am not very impressed with theological arguments whatever they may be used to support. Such arguments have often been…
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It seems probable that once the machine thinking method had started, it would not take long to outstrip our feeble…
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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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The original question, 'Can machines think?' I believe to be too meaningless to deserve discussion.
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My little computer said such a funny thing this morning.
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Instruction tables will have to be made up by mathematicians with computing experience and perhaps a certain puzzle-solving ability. There…
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Unless in communicating with it one says exactly what one means, trouble is bound to result.
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We may hope that machines will eventually compete with men in all purely intellectual fields.
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There is, however, one feature that I would like to suggest should be incorporated in the machines, and that is…
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More Discipline Quotes
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What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.
— Aristotle
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In the holy city of Mecca, violence of any kind was forbidden. From the moment they left home, pilgrims were…
— Karen Armstrong
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The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any.
— Fred Astaire
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If you dedicate your attention to discipline in your life you become smarter while you are writing than while you…
— Russell Banks
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To say that I have an undisciplined mind would not be incorrect overall, but it's a little off the mark…
— Roseanne Barr
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Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things, I am tempted to think there are no little…
— Bruce Barton
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The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to…
— Bernard Baruch
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From Fred Astaire I learned discipline and hard work.
— Dirk Benedict
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As a man may be born with a mathematical faculty, and by training that faculty year after year may immensely…
— Annie Besant
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Work while you work, play while you play - this is a basic rule of repressive self-discipline.
— Theodor Adorno
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Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades. A mode of conduct, a standard of courage,…
— Jacqueline Bisset
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I do believe sometimes discipline is very important. I'm not just lying around like a lazy cow all the time.
— Bjork
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