Alan Turing

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

The human mind is a very complicated machine.

The computer is a universal machine.

We are trying to create a machine that can solve problems.

The machine should be able to use language.

The human brain is an electrical machine.

The machine should be able to communicate with human beings.

The machine should be able to understand what it is doing.

The human mind is a very powerful computer.

The computer is an extension of the human mind.

At some stage therefore we should have to expect the machines to take control.

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

The idea of a 'thinking machine' is not something that should be taken lightly.

The machine should be able to learn for itself.

The extent to which we regard mind as an attribute of the body, or something separable from it, is largely a matter of convenience.

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.

The whole problem can be reduced to the question: Can machines think?

The digital computers of today are in principle exactly the same as the universal machines I described.

I have had a number of conversations with people who are convinced that machines cannot think. I have not been convinced by their arguments.

We are not interested in the fact that a machine can do something, but in the fact that it can learn to do something.