“We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.”

“I believe that at the end of the century the use of words and general educated opinion will have altered so much that one will be able to speak of machines thinking without expecting to be contradi...”

“The isolated man does not develop any intellectual power. It is necessary for him to be immersed in an environment of other men, whose techniques he absorbs during the first twenty years of his lif...”

“Let us return for a moment to Lady Lovelaces objection, which stated that the machine can only do what we tell it to do. One could say that a man can inject an idea into the machine, and that it wi...”

“The idea behind digital computers may be explained by saying that these machines are intended to carry out any operations which could be done by a human computer.”

“Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition.”