“Sometimes it is the people no one can imagine anything of who do the things no one can imagine.”
“We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.”
“A computer would deserve to be called intelligent if it could deceive a human into believing that it was human.”
“Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition.”
“Machines take me by surprise with great frequency.”
“I propose to consider the question, ‘Can machines think?'”
“The original question, ‘Can machines think?’ I believe to be too meaningless to deserve discussion.”
“Instead of trying to produce a program to simulate the adult mind, why not rather try to produce one which simulates the child’s?”
“If a machine is expected to be infallible, it cannot also be intelligent.”
“Mathematical reasoning may be regarded rather schematically as the exercise of a combination of two facilities, which we may call intuition and ingenuity.”
“I believe that at the end of the century, the use of words and general educated opinion will have altered so much that one will be able to speak of machines thinking without expecting to be contradicted.”
“The idea behind digital computers may be explained by saying that these machines are intended to carry out any operations which could be done by a human computer.”
“The extent of a computer’s applicability is limited only by the ingenuity of the experimenter in devising experiments.”
“If one wants to make a computer clever, one must make it capable of learning.”
“The fact that machines can think does not imply that they can feel.”
“What we want is a machine that can learn from experience.”
“It seems probable that once the machine thinking method had started, it would not take long to outstrip our feeble powers.”
“Instead of trying to construct a machine to produce its own tasks, let us consider building one to imitate a human brain.”
“The mind is not a static entity but a dynamic process.”
“No attempt to explain an observation in terms of machines is likely to carry conviction unless there is at least some indication that the explanation is actually realizable by machinery.”
“One day ladies will take their computers for walks in the park and tell each other, ‘My little computer said such a funny thing this morning!'”
“I have such a great belief in the spirit of inquiry that I believe machines can be made to carry it out.”
“It seems likely that human intuition would play a vital part in the development of intelligent machinery.”
“To be scientific is to be skeptical.”
“Programming is an art, as well as a science.”
“The development of machine intelligence will redefine what it means to be human.”
“A machine cannot be truly creative unless it is capable of making mistakes.”
“The history of science is often the story of attempts to overcome the limitations of human perception.”
“The future of computing is not in computation, but in creativity.”
“Computers are not meant to replace humans but to augment human capabilities.”
“An unexamined program is not worth running.”
“We can only push the boundaries of understanding by asking difficult questions.”
“One should not be too cautious in interpreting the results of an experiment.”
“The machine does not invent; it reorganizes existing information.”
“Human intuition and machine logic together hold the promise of boundless innovation.”
“We must learn to trust the unexpected brilliance of machines.”
“If computers can surpass us in chess, why not in reasoning?”
“The elegance of mathematics lies in its ability to explain complex systems with simple rules.”
“The imitation of thought by machines will be both a challenge and a revolution.”
“Do not fear the future of computing; embrace its potential.”
“The line between human and machine intelligence will blur as each informs the other.”
“If a computer can feel, it will redefine the essence of consciousness.”
“The logic behind human thought is as mysterious as it is powerful.”
“Artificial intelligence is not about machines replacing humans but complementing them.”
“What separates us from machines is not our intelligence, but our capacity for emotion.”
“Can machines dream? This question may define the next century.”
“To program a machine to think, we must first understand how we think.”
“A truly intelligent machine will question its own existence.”
“Human curiosity will always drive innovation, whether in flesh or silicon.”
“As machines evolve, so must our understanding of intelligence and life itself.”