I believe that at the end of the century the use of words and general educated opinion will have altered so much that one will be able to speak of machines thinking without expecting to be contradicted.

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.

A very large part of space-time must be investigated, if reliable results are to be obtained.

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".

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

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

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