"In attempting to construct such (artificially intelligent) machines we should not be irreverently usurping His (God's) power of creating souls, any more than we are in the procreation of children,â€ Turing had advised. â€œRather we are, in either case, instruments of His will providing mansions for the souls that He creates."

-- Alan Turing

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“They love him, gentlemen, and they respect him, not only for himself, but for his character, for his integrity and judgment and iron will; but they love him most for the enemies he has made.”
“As one woman told me, "When I decided to come in to work happy, everybody around me became happy." This woman had decided to quit a job she hated, and on the last day of her two weeks' notice, she woke up happy. At the end of the day, she noticed that everybody around her was happy, too- so she didn't quit after all. She decided to come to work happy instead. Two years later, she's still on the job, radiating happiness and love.”
“Thinking leads man to knowledge. He may see and hear, and read and learn, as much as he please; he will never know any of it, except that which he has thought over, that which by thinking he has made the property of his mind. Is it then saying too much if I say, that man by thinking only becomes truly man? Take away thought from man's life, and what remains?”
“Medical science is making such remarkable progress that soon none of us will be well.”
“You have this kind of cross between abandonment and savior, and I think it's going to show that how a government as powerful as America is was able to drop the ball so badly, then maybe it can be used as a textbook in the future.”
“I guess I don't believe that death is the end.”
“Art is basically made by dissatisfied people who are willing to find some means to relieve the dissatisfaction.”
“The belief that one's own view of reality is the only reality is the most dangerous of all delusions.”

Source : Paul Watzlawick (1977). “How real is real?: Confusion, disinformation, communication”, Vintage

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