The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate anything. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform.

A computer would deserve to be called intelligent if it could deceive a human into believing that it was human.

The fundamental problem of communication is that of reproducing at one point either exactly or approximately a message selected at another point.

If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is.

As soon as it works, no one calls it AI anymore.

Machines will be capable, within twenty years, of doing any work that a man can do.

In from three to eight years we will have a machine with the general intelligence of an average human being.

The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.

The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim.