Sometimes it is the people no one imagines anything of who do the things that no one can imagine.

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

When we want to sink a convoy, we send out an observation plane first... Of course, to observe is not its real duty, we already know exactly where the convoy is. Its real duty is to be observed...Then, when we come round and sink them, the Germans will not find it suspicious.

We may hope that machines will eventually compete with men in all purely intellectual fields.

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

We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.

We may hope that machines will eventually compete with men in all purely intellectual fields. But which are the best ones to start with? Many people think that a very abstract activity, like the playing of chess, would be best. It can also be maintained that it is best to provide the machine with the best sense organs that money can buy, and then teach it to understand and speak English.