"My interest in the brain is not so much in its structure, but in its function."

"Machines take me by surprise with great frequency."

"We are not interested in the fact that a machine can do something, but in the fact that it can learn to do something."

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

"The problem of consciousness is a difficult one, and I do not have a solution to it."