"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…"

"I am not interested in whether a machine can think, but in whether it can make me think."

"Programming is a skill best acquired by practice and example rather than from books."

"The machine should be able to learn for itself."

"I propose to consider the question, 'Can machines think?' This should begin with definitions of the meaning of the terms 'machine' and 'think.'"