Alan Turing — "The problem of artificial intelligence is to create machines that can learn and …"

"If you cannot explain it simply, you do not understand it well enough."

"I do not wish to give the impression that I think there is no mystery about consciousness. There is, for instance, something of a paradox connected with any attempt to localize it."

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

"No, I am not interested in developing a powerful brain. All I am after is just a mediocre brain, something like the Brain of the Man in the Street."

"Programming is a skill best acquired by practice and example rather than from books."