No, I'm not interested in developing a powerful brain. All I'm after is just a mediocre brain, something like the President of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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".