Alan Turing — "I have had a number of conversations with people who are convinced that machines…"

"The isolated man does not develop any intellectual power. It is necessary for him to be immersed in an environment of other men, whose techniques he absorbs during the first twenty years of his life. …"

"The activity of the intuition consists in making spontaneous judgements which are not the result of conscious trains of reasoning. These judgments are often but by no means invariably correct…"

"The power of machines will one day be so great that they will be able to do anything we can do, and more."

"I don't think that human beings are the be-all and end-all of creation."

"My interest in the brain is not so much in its structure, but in its function."