"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…"

"Up to a point, it is better to just let the snags [bugs] be there than to spend such time in design that there are none."

"The process of education is an attempt to produce the kind of intelligence that we would like to have in our machines."

"The popular view that the brain is a 'digital computer' is a profound oversimplification."

"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…"