The activity of the intuition consists in making spontaneous judgements which are not the result of conscious trains of reasoning. These judgments are often but by no means invariably correct…
Computer science, codebreaking
On mathematical intuition and ingenuity, discussed in his 1939 doctoral thesis.
c. 1939
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Humorous"The machine has to be able to do something which it has never been programmed to do."
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