We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done..

We are not interested in the fact that the brain has the consistency of cold porridge..

Mathematical reasoning may be regarded..

A computer would deserve to be called intelligent if it could deceive a human into believing that it was human..

Up to a point, it is better to just let the snags [bugs] be there than to spend such time in design that there are none..

Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition..

One day ladies will take their computers for walks in the park and tell each other, "My little computer said such a funny thing this morning"..

A man provided with paper, pencil, and rubber, and subject to strict discipline, is in effect a universal machine..

If a machine is expected to be infallible, it cannot also be intelligent..

Unless in communicating with it one says exactly what one means, trouble is bound to result..

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

Codes are a puzzle. A game, just like any other game..

We may hope that machines will eventually compete with men in all purely intellectual fields. But which are the best ones to start with? Many people ….

There is, however, one feature that I would like to suggest should be incorporated in the machines, and that is a 'random element.' Each machine shou….

Machines take me by surprise with great frequency..

Mathematical reasoning may be regarded rather schematically as the exercise of a combination of two facilities, which we may call intuition and ingen….

The idea behind digital computers may be explained by saying that these machines are intended to carry out any operations which could be done by a hu….

I believe that at the end of the century the use of words and general educated opinion will have altered so much that one will be able to speak of ma….

The original question, 'Can machines think?' I believe to be too meaningless to deserve discussion..

No, I'm not interested in developing a powerful brain..

Do you know why people like violence? It is because it feels good. Humans find violence deeply satisfying. But remove the satisfaction, and the act b….