"A computer is a universal machine. It can do anything that can be described as a computation."

"The human brain is a very remarkable thing, but it is not infallible."

"The idea of a 'soul' is a philosophical concept, not a scientific one."

"If a machine can think, it might think more intelligently than we do, and then where should we be?"

"I expect to lie in the sun, talk French and modern Greek, and make love, though the sex and nationality... has yet to be decided: in fact it is quite possible that this item will be altogether omitted…"