"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 contradicte…"

"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. …"

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

"The idea of a 'thinking machine' has been considered by many, but the time for such a possibility is still far off."

"The human mind is an emergent property of the brain."