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

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

No, I'm not interested in developing a powerful brain.

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

Bell Labs Cafeteria, New York, 1943: His high pitched voice already stood out above the general murmur of well-behaved junior executives grooming themselves for promotion within the Bell corporation. Then he was suddenly heard to say: "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."

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