"If a machine can pass the Turing Test, then it is intelligent."

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

"The problem of consciousness is a difficult one, and I do not have a solution to it."

"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 view that machines cannot give rise to surprises is due, I believe, to a fallacy to which philosophers and mathematicians are particularly subject."