"The extent to which we regard thinking as a function of the brain rather than the entire body is very much a matter of taste."

"It is possible to invent a single machine which can be used to compute any computable sequence."

"Instead of trying to produce a programme to simulate the adult mind, why not rather try to produce one which simulates the child's? If this were then subjected to an appropriate course of education on…"

"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…"

"If you cannot explain it simply, you do not understand it well enough."