Machines take me by surprise with great frequency.

My little computer said such a funny thing this morning.

Machines take me by surprise with great frequency.

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

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.

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

Instruction tables will have to be made up by mathematicians with computing experience and perhaps a certain puzzle-solving ability. There need be no real danger of it ever becoming a drudge, for any processes that are quite mechanical may be turned over to the machine itself.