There is, however, one feature that I would like to suggest should be incorporated in the machines, and that is a 'random element.' Each machine should be supplied with a tape bearing a random series of figures, e.g., 0 and 1 in equal quantities, and this series of figures should be used in the choices made by the machine. This would result in the behaviour of the machine not being by any means completely determined by the experiences to which it was subjected, and would have some valuable uses when one was experimenting with it.

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

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

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

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

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

Codes are a puzzle. A game, just like any other game.