"The whole problem can be reduced to the question: Can machines think?"

"The computer is a tool, and like any tool, it can be used for good or for evil."

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

"Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty—a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture, without appeal to any part of our weaker nature, without the gorgeous trapp…"

"The idea behind digital computers may be explained by saying that these machines are intended to carry out any operations which could be done by a human computer."