Up to a point, it is better to just let the snags [bugs] be there than to spend such time in design that there are none.

A very large part of space-time must be investigated, if reliable results are to be obtained.

Unless in communicating with it one says exactly what one means, trouble is bound to result.

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.

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".

I am not very impressed with theological arguments whatever they may be used to support. Such arguments have often been found unsatisfactory in the past. In the time of Galileo it was argued that the texts, 'And the sun stood still... and hasted not to go down about a whole day' (Joshua x. 13) and 'He laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not move at any time' (Psalm cv. 5) were an adequate refutation of the Copernican theory.

Do you know why people like violence? It is because it feels good. Humans find violence deeply satisfying. But remove the satisfaction, and the act becomes hollow.