Alan Turing

"The barrier between mind and machine is largely a matter of definition."

"A machine can be programmed to learn from its own mistakes."

"The concept of a universal machine is revolutionary in its implications."

"We must be humble about the limits of our understanding of intelligence."

"The mechanical nature of the brain does not diminish the reality of consciousness."

"A thinking machine would necessarily be mysterious to itself in some respects."

"The digital revolution will change the nature of human work fundamentally."

"To understand thinking, we must first understand what it means to think."

"Machines will eventually be able to do anything that humans can do."

"The question of machine consciousness is not a scientific question but a philosophical one."

"We should study the brain not as an organ but as an information processor."

"A machine's understanding of a concept could be quite different from ours."

"The power of computation lies in its generality and universality."

"We have not yet begun to explore what machines might become."

"The distinction between thinking and simulating thinking is less clear than it appears."

"What we call intelligence may simply be complex information processing."

"A machine can be designed to exhibit any finite set of behaviors."

"The future belongs to those who understand the nature of computation."

"We are living through a revolution in human thinking as profound as any in history."

"The question of whether God exists is less important than what we do with our knowledge."