"If a machine can pass the Turing Test, then it is intelligent."

"The human mind is a self-organizing system."

"One could say that a man can 'inject' an idea into the machine, and that it will respond to a certain extent and then drop into quiescence, like a piano string struck by a hammer. Another simile would…"

"The original question, 'Can machines think?' I believe to be too meaningless to deserve discussion. Nevertheless I believe that at the end of the century the use of words and general educated opinion …"

"The machine has a definite state at any moment, which is determined by the instructions it has received and by the results of its previous operations."