"The question is not 'Can machines think?' but 'Can machines do what we (as thinking entities) can do?'"

"The question, 'Can machines think?' should be replaced by 'Are there imaginable digital computers which would do well in the imitation game?'"

"Mathematical reasoning may be regarded rather schematically as the exercise of a combination of two facilities, which we may call intuition and ingenuity. The activity of the intuition consists in mak…"

"The computer is a new medium for human expression."

"The isolated man does not develop any intellectual power. It is necessary for him to be immersed in an environment of other men, whose techniques he absorbs during the first twenty years of his life."