Alan Turing — "The idea of a 'thinking machine' has been considered by many, but the time for s…"

"Once the machine thinking method had started, it would not take long to outstrip our feeble powers."

"No doubt I shall emerge from it all a different man, but quite who I've not found out."

"In the time of Galileo it was argued that the texts, 'And the sun stood still ... and hasted not to go down about a whole day' (Joshua x. 13) and 'He laid the foundations of the earth, that it should …"

"The new form of the problem can be described in terms of a game which we call the 'imitation game.' It is played with three people, a man (A), a woman (B), and an interrogator (C) who may be of either…"

"The machine is only as good as the man who programs it."