"The idea of a 'thinking machine' is not so absurd as it seems."

"It is not possible to produce a machine which will be intelligent in the same way that a human being is intelligent."

"We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done."

"The main problem with artificial intelligence is that it is too easy to make a machine that can do what we want it to do, but too hard to make a machine that can do what we don't want it to do."

"The new form of the problem can be described in terms of a game which we call the 'imitation game.' It is played with three people, a man (A), a woman (B), and an interrogator (C) who may be of either…"