Strange & Unusual Sayings

10,844 sayings found from the Modern era

No doubt I shall emerge from it all a different man, but quite who I've not found out.

— Alan Turing 1952
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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 Turing 1943
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Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition.

— Alan Turing 1954
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One day ladies will take their computers for walks in the park and tell each other, 'My little computer said such a funny thing this morning'.

— Alan Turing c. 1950
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One day ladies will take their computers for walks in the park and tell each other, 'My little computer said such a funny thing this morning'.

— Alan Turing c. 1950
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The original question, 'Can machines think?' I believe to be too meaningless to deserve discussion.

— Alan Turing 1950
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Machines take me by surprise with great frequency.

— Alan Turing 1950
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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 Turing 1950
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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 Turing 1950
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Unless in communicating with it one says exactly what one means, trouble is bound to result.

— Alan Turing 1946
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Unless in communicating with it one says exactly what one means, trouble is bound to result.

— Alan Turing 1946
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The works and customs of mankind do not seem to be very suitable material to which to apply scientific induction.

— Alan Turing 1950
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The works and customs of mankind do not seem to be very suitable material to which to apply scientific induction.

— Alan Turing 1950
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We are not interested in the fact that the brain has the consistency of cold porridge.

— Alan Turing 1950
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We are not interested in the fact that the brain has the consistency of cold porridge.

— Alan Turing 1950
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I've now got myself into the kind of trouble that I have always considered to be quite a possibility for me, though I have usually rated it at about 10:1 against.

— Alan Turing 1952
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I've now got myself into the kind of trouble that I have always considered to be quite a possibility for me, though I have usually rated it at about 10:1 against.

— Alan Turing 1952
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I have had a dream indicating rather clearly that I am on the way to being hetero, though I don't accept it with much enthusiasm either awake or in the dreams.

— Alan Turing Post-1952
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I expect to lie in the sun, talk French and modern Greek, and make love, though the sex and nationality... has yet to be decided: in fact it is quite possible that this item will be altogether omitted.

— Alan Turing Unknown
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I expect to lie in the sun, talk French and modern Greek, and make love, though the sex and nationality... has yet to be decided: in fact it is quite possible that this item will be altogether omitted.

— Alan Turing Unknown
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