"The question is not whether machines can think, but whether they can do something that we would call thinking."

"May not machines carry out something which ought to be described as thinking but which is very different from what a man does?"

"The machine should be able to carry out logical deductions."

"The view that machines cannot give rise to surprises is due, I believe, to a fallacy to which philosophers and mathematicians are particularly subject. This is the assumption that as soon as a fact is…"

"This is only a foretaste of what is to come, and only the shadow of what is going to be."