"It seems probable that once the machine thinking method had started, it would not take long to outstrip our feeble powers and would take control."

"Hyperboloids of wondrous light. Rolling for age through Space and Time Harbour there Waves which somehow Might Play out God's holy pantomime."

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

"Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty—a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture, without appeal to any part of our weaker nature, without the gorgeous trapp…"

"I am not very impressed with theological arguments whatever they may be used to support. Such arguments have often been found unsatisfactory in the past. In the time of Galileo it was argued that the …"