"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…"

"No, I'm not interested in developing a powerful brain. All I'm interested in is a moderately trained brain. The kind that would be useful in daily life."

"I see no reason why a machine should not be able to have emotions."

"The popular view is that the brain is a kind of telephone exchange. I believe that it is not quite as simple as that."

"The human mind is a self-organizing system."