"If a machine can pass the Turing Test, then it is intelligent."

"Unless in communicating with it one says exactly what one means, trouble is bound to result."

"Instead of trying to produce a programme to simulate the adult mind, why not rather try to produce one which simulates the child's?"

"Arguments against the hope of artificial intelligence included that 'you will never be able to make [a machine] to do' any of these: Be kind, resourceful, beautiful, friendly, have initiative, have a …"

"No doubt I shall emerge from it all a different man, but quite who I've not found out."