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.

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

Machines take me by surprise with great frequency.

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

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

My little computer said such a funny thing this morning.

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