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• We may hope that machines will eventually compete with men in all purely intellectual fields. But which are the best ones to…
• Up to a point, it is better to just let the snags [bugs] be there than to spend such time in design…
• No, I'm not interested in developing a powerful brain. All I'm after is just a mediocre brain, something like the President of…
• I am not very impressed with theological arguments whatever they may be used to support. Such arguments have often been found unsatisfactory…
• It seems probable that once the machine thinking method had started, it would not take long to outstrip our feeble powers… They…
• A very large part of space-time must be investigated, if reliable results are to be obtained.
• The original question, 'Can machines think?' I believe to be too meaningless to deserve discussion.
• My little computer said such a funny thing this morning.
• Instruction tables will have to be made up by mathematicians with computing experience and perhaps a certain puzzle-solving ability. There need be…
• Unless in communicating with it one says exactly what one means, trouble is bound to result.
• A man provided with paper, pencil, and rubber, and subject to strict discipline, is in effect a universal machine.
• We may hope that machines will eventually compete with men in all purely intellectual fields.

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