"The value of a result is not measured by the time it took to get it."

"A man provided with paper, pencil, and rubber, and subject to strict discipline, is in effect a universal machine."

"No, I am not interested in developing a powerful brain. All I am interested in is a rather crude imitation of a child's brain."

"Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty—a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture, without appeal to any part of our weaker nature, without the gorgeous trapp…"

"The human brain has a finite number of states, and so it can be simulated by a finite state machine."