Alan Turing — "The extent to which we regard mind as distinct from matter, is a matter of conve…"

"The view that machines cannot give rise to surprises is due, I believe, to a fallacy to which philosophers and mathematicians are particularly subject. This is the assumption that as soon as a fact is…"

"The human mind is capable of doing many things that a machine cannot, but a machine can do many things that a human cannot."

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

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

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