"Sometimes it is the people no one imagines anything of who do the things that no one can imagine."
"Instead of trying to produce a programme to simulate the adult mind, why not rather try to produce one which simulates the child's? If this were then subjected to an appropriate course of education one would obtain the adult brain."
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Source: Intelligent Machinery: A Report by A. M. Turing. Submitted to the National Physical Laboratory in 1948. Key Papers: Cybernetics. Book edited by C. R. Evans and A. D. J. Robertson, 1968.
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