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Programming is a skill best acquired by practice and example rather than from books.

Codes are a puzzle. A game, just like any other game.

We are not interested in the fact that the brain has the consistency of cold porridge.

A very large part of space-time must be investigated, if reliable results are to be obtained.

Sometimes it is the people no one can imagine anything of who do the things no one can imagine.

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

I want a permanent relationship, and I might feel inclined to reject anything which of its nature could not be permanent.

Those who can imagine anything, can create the impossible.

A computer would deserve to be called intelligent if it could deceive a human into believing that it was human.

I have such a stressful job that the only way I can get it out of my mind is by running hard.

Sometimes it is the people who no one imagines anything of who do the things that no one can imagine.

The original question, 'Can machines think?' I believe to be too meaningless to deserve discussion.

Machines take me by surprise with great frequency.

Up to a point, it is better to just let the snags [bugs] be there than to spend such time in design that there are none.

We may hope that machines will eventually compete with men in all purely intellectual fields.

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".

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

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