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

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

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

In attempting to construct such (artificially intelligent) machines we should not be irreverently usurping His (God's) power of creating souls, any more than we are in the procreation of children,” Turing had advised. “Rather we are, in either case, instruments of His will providing mansions for the souls that He creates.

Mathematical reasoning may be regarded.

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

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