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

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

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.

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".

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.

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

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.