Alan Turing — "No doubt I shall emerge from it all a different man, but quite who I've not foun…"

"The idea of a 'mind' is a human construct, and it may not apply to machines."

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

"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 human mind is a self-organizing system."

"A computer would deserve to be called intelligent if it could deceive a human into believing that it was human."