"I am not afraid of computers. I am afraid of the people who program them."

"I have had a number of conversations with people who are convinced that machines cannot think. I have not been convinced by their arguments."

"The process of education is an attempt to produce the kind of intelligence that we would like to have in our machines."

"I am a homosexual and I am not ashamed."

"The problem of consciousness is a difficult one, and I do not have a solution to it."