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

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. All I'm after is just a mediocre brain, something like the President of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company.

It seems probable that once the machine thinking method had started, it would not take long to outstrip our feeble powers… They would be able to converse with each other to sharpen their wits. At some stage therefore, we should have to expect the machines to take control.

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

We may hope that machines will eventually compete with men in all purely intellectual fields.

A very large part of space-time must be investigated, if reliable results are to be obtained.