"No, I am not interested in developing a powerful brain. All I am after is just a mediocre brain, something like the Brain of the Man in the Street."

"The human mind is a pattern-matching machine."

"The computer is a new medium for human expression."

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

"I expect to lie in the sun, talk French and modern Greek, and make love, though the sex and nationality... has yet to be decided: in fact it is quite possible that this item will be altogether omitted…"