Alan Turing — "The imitation game is a test of intelligence, not a test of consciousness."

"The popular view that scientists proceed inexorably from well-established fact to well-established fact, never being influenced by any unproved conjecture, is quite mistaken. Provided it is made clear…"

"I've now got myself into the kind of trouble that I have always considered to be quite a possibility for me, though I have usually rated it at about 10:1 against."

"The popular view that the brain is a 'digital computer' is a profound oversimplification."

"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 problem of intelligence is a very difficult one."