A computer would deserve to be called intelligent if it could deceive a human into believing that it was human.

One day ladies will take their computers for walks in the park and tell each other, "My little computer said such a funny thing this morning".

If a machine is expected to be infallible, it cannot also be intelligent.

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.

A man provided with paper, pencil, and rubber, and subject to strict discipline, is in effect a universal machine.

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.

It seems probable that once the machine thinking method had started, it would not take long to outstrip our feeble powers… They would be able to converse with each other to sharpen their wits. At some stage therefore, we should have to expect the machines to take control.