"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."

"The machine has a definite state at any moment, which is determined by the instructions it has received and by the results of its previous operations."

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

"The popular view that scientists proceed inexorably from well-established fact to well-established fact, never being influenced by any unproved conjecture, is quite mistaken. Provided it is made clear…"

"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…"