"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 machine should be able to use language."

"There would be great opposition from the intellectuals who were afraid of being put out of a job. It is probable though that the intellectuals would be mistaken about this. There would be plenty to do…"

"The question is not whether machines can think, but whether they can do something that we would call thinking."

"Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition."