"The idea behind digital computers may be explained by saying that these machines are intended to carry out any operations which could be done by a human computer."

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Source : "Computing Machinery and Intelligence". Mind - A Quarterly Review of Psychology and Philosophy, Volume 59, No. 236, p. 436, 1950.

Alan Turing

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“Curiosity is idle only to those who fail to realize that it may be a very rare and indispensable thing.”

Source : James Harvey Robinson (1939). “The Mind in the Making”
“I will deal with the politicians in a political way and with the nonpoliticians in a nonpolitical way.”
“Like art, love, and pornography, noir is hard to define, but you know it when you see it. For the purposes of the book and my longtime working understanding and definition of it, noir stories are bleak, existential, alienated, pessimistic tales about losers--people who are so morally challenged that they cannot help but bring about their own ruin.”
“The environment you fashion out of your thoughts, your beliefs, your ideals, your philosophy is the only climate you will ever live in. The key is in not spending time, but in investing it.”
“I like people and I like hearing their stories. The way that they deliver them is always very particular and I think that their accents are integral to that.”
“To understand yourself is the key to wisdom.”
“Christ bears with the saints' imperfections; well may the saints one with another.”

Source : William Gurnall (1865). “The Christian in Complete Armour: A Treatise of the Saints' War Against the Devil, Wherein a Discovery is Made of that Grand Enemy of God and His People, in His Policies, Power, Seat of His Empire, Wickedness, and Chief Design He Hath Against the Saints : a Magazine Opened, from Whence the Christian is Furnished with Spiritual Arms for the Battle, Helped on with His Armour, and Taught the Use of His Weapon, Together with the Happy Issue of the Whole War”, p.563
“Tragedy is what happens to me; comedy is what happens to you.”

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