Computers aren't entirely predictable

Belief that computers are entirely predictable is based on false assumption that humans can know everything that follows deductively from a set of premises. But humans learn new things in part through the working out of deductive consequences.

Alan Turing, 1950. Similarly, humans don't know everything that a computer will do given some initial state of the computer, we learn new things in part by watching them perform their calculations.
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