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

The original question, 'Can machines think?' I believe to be too meaningless to deserve discussion.

Mathematical reasoning may be regarded rather schematically as the exercise of a combination of two facilities, which we may call intuition and ingenuity.

I'm afraid that the following syllogism may be used by some in the future. Turing believes machines think Turing lies with men Therefore machines do not think Yours in distress, Alan

Programming is a skill best acquired by practice and example rather than from books.

I believe that at the end of the century the use of words and general educated opinion will have altered so much that one will be able to speak of machines thinking without expecting to be contradicted.

We are not interested in the fact that the brain has the consistency of cold porridge.