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Alan Turing
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Quotes by Alan Turing
Alan Turing's insights on:
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I want a permanent relationship, and I might feel inclined to reject anything which of its nature could not be permanent.
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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.
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I have such a stressful job that the only way I can get it out of my mind is by running hard.
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Mathematical reasoning may be regarded rather schematically as the exercise of a combination of two facilities, which we may call intuition and ingenuity.
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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.
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Sometimes it is the people no one imagines anything of who do the things that no-one can imagine
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Do you know why people like violence? It is because it feels good. Humans find violence deeply satisfying. But remove the satisfaction, and the act becomes hollow.
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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".
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A man provided with paper, pencil, and rubber, and subject to strict discipline, is in effect a universal machine.
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