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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 Turing Computing Machinery and Intelligence (1950)

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We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.

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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.

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Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition.

Epigram to Robin Gandy (1954)

This is only a foretaste of what is to come, and only the shadow of what is going to be.

A man provided with paper, pencil, and rubber, and subject to strict discipline, is in effect a universal machine.

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