"One could say that a man can 'inject' an idea into the machine, and that it will respond to a certain extent and then drop into quiescence, like a piano string struck by a hammer. Another simile would…"

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

"I believe that in about fifty years' time it will be possible to programme computers, with a storage capacity of about 10^9, to make them play the imitation game so well that an average interrogator w…"

"The machine cannot do anything new."

"Arguments against the hope of artificial intelligence included that 'you will never be able to make [a machine] to do' any of these: Be kind, resourceful, beautiful, friendly, have initiative, have a …"