Alan Turing — "The machine can only do what we tell it to do. But what if we tell it to learn?"

"The fact that a machine can imitate a human being does not mean that it is a human being."

"Instead of trying to produce a programme to simulate the adult mind, why not rather try to produce one which simulates the child's?"

"It is not easy to devise a game which is fair in this respect between the machine and the man."

"I am not very impressed with theological arguments whatever they may be used to support. Such arguments have often been found unsatisfactory in the past. In the time of Galileo it was argued that the …"

"It is possible for a machine to have a memory in the sense that a human being has a memory."