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Logician Inspirational Quotes (2010)

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God's existence cannot be deduced by reason alone.
William of Ockham
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In the first place, then, men should guard against the beginning of change, and in the second place they should not rely upon the political devices of which I have already spoken invented only to deceive the people, for they are proved by experience to be useless.
Aristotle
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When you have two competing theories that make exactly the same predictions, the simpler one is the better.
William of Ockham
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Entities must not be multiplied beyond necessity.
William of Ockham
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The explanation requiring the fewest assumptions is most likely to be correct.
William of Ockham
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Plurality is not to be posited without necessity.
William of Ockham
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Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem
William of Ockham
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Entities should not be posited unnecessarily.
William of Ockham
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The greatest victory is over self.
Aristotle
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Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here? That depends a good deal on where you want to get to. I don't much care where – Then it doesn't matter which way you go.
Lewis Carroll
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If a machine is expected to be infallible, it cannot also be intelligent.
Alan Turing
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These disturbing phenomena [Extra Sensory Perception] seem to deny all our scientific ideas. How we should like to discredit them! Unfortunately the statistical evidence, at least for telepathy, is overwhelming.
Alan Turing
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The Exclusion Principle is laid down purely for the benefit of the electrons themselves, who might be corrupted (and become dragons or demons) if allowed to associate too freely.
Alan Turing
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Sometimes it is the people no one imagines anything of who do the things that no one can imagine.
Alan Turing
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A man provided with paper, pencil, and rubber, and subject to strict discipline, is in effect a universal machine.
Alan Turing
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Instruction tables will have to be made up by mathematicians with computing experience and perhaps a certain puzzle-solving ability. There need be no real danger of it ever becoming a drudge, for any processes that are quite mechanical may be turned over to the machine itself.
Alan Turing
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Codes are a puzzle. A game, just like any other game.
Alan Turing
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My little computer said such a funny thing this morning.
Alan Turing
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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
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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.
Alan Turing
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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,” Turing had advised. “Rather we are, in either case, instruments of His will providing mansions for the souls that He creates.
Alan Turing
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I believe that at the end of the century the use of words and general educated opinion will have altered so much that one will be able to speak of machines thinking without expecting to be contradicted.
Alan Turing
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We are not interested in the fact that the brain has the consistency of cold porridge.
Alan Turing
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A life devoted to science is therefore a happy life, and its happiness is derived from the very best sources that are open to dwellers on this troubled and passionate planet.
Bertrand Russell
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