Alan Turing — "The development of artificial intelligence will have a profound impact on societ…"

"If it is accepted that real brains, as found in animals, and in particular in men, are a sort of machine it will follow that our digital computer suitably programmed, will behave like a brain..."

"The digital computers of today are in principle exactly the same as the universal machines I described."

"We are not interested in the fact that the machine can do well, but in the fact that it can do badly."

"The machine has to be able to do something which it has never been programmed to do."

"The main problem with artificial intelligence is that it is too easy to make a machine that can do what we want it to do, but too hard to make a machine that can do what we don't want it to do."