"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 machines thinking without expecting to be contradicte…"

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

"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 is only as good as the man who programs it."

"The digital computer is a universal machine, capable of simulating any other machine."