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.

Unless in communicating with it one says exactly what one means, trouble is bound to result.

A computer would deserve to be called intelligent if it could deceive a human into believing that it was human.

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".

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

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.

Up to a point, it is better to just let the snags [bugs] be there than to spend such time in design that there are none.