"The computer is a tool for understanding the universe."

"I expect to lie in the sun, talk French and modern Greek, and make love, though the sex and nationality... has yet to be decided: in fact it is quite possible that this item will be altogether omitted…"

"The future of humanity depends on the development of artificial intelligence."

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

"The main problem with artificial intelligence is that it is too easy to make a machine that can do what we want it to do, but too hard to make a machine that can do what we don't want it to do."