Saturday, October 15, 2011

no. 71

"An atheist doesn’t have to be someone who thinks he has a proof that there can’t be a god. He only has to be someone who believes that the evidence on the God question is at a similar level to the evidence on the werewolf question."

John McCarthy - American computer scientist, based at Stanford. Coined the term artificial intelligence; received the Turing Award in 1971 for his contributions to the AI field.

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