These disturbing phenomena [Extra Sensory Perception] seem to deny all our scientific ideas. How we should like to discredit them! Unfortunately the statistical evidence, at least for telepathy, is overwhelming.

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".

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.

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.

Do you know why people like violence? It is because it feels good. Humans find violence deeply satisfying. But remove the satisfaction, and the act becomes hollow.

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

Mathematical reasoning may be regarded.