"No, I am not interested in developing a powerful brain. All I am after is just a mediocre brain, something like the Brain of the Man in the Street."

"The question is not whether machines can think, but whether they can be made to think like humans."

"The important thing is not to stop questioning."

"The isolated man does not develop any intellectual power. It is necessary for him to be immersed in an environment of other men, whose techniques he absorbs during the first twenty years of his life. …"

"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'."