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

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

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

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

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

When we want to sink a convoy, we send out an observation plane first... Of course, to observe is not its real duty, we already know exactly where the convoy is. Its real duty is to be observed...Then, when we come round and sink them, the Germans will not find it suspicious.

I am not very impressed with theological arguments whatever they may be used to support. Such arguments have often been found unsatisfactory in the past. In the time of Galileo it was argued that the texts, 'And the sun stood still... and hasted not to go down about a whole day' (Joshua x. 13) and 'He laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not move at any time' (Psalm cv. 5) were an adequate refutation of the Copernican theory.