“I'm afraid that the following syllogism may be used by some in the future.Turing believes machines thinkTuring lies with menTherefore machines do not thinkYours in distress,Alan”

“It may be useful to remember that a peacetime political machine is built essentially on patronage.”

“In a properly automated and educated world, then, machines may prove to be the true humanizing influence. It may be that machines will do the work that makes life possible and that human beings will do all the other things that make life pleasant and worthwhile ”

“I was in the machine. My whole life. Then the machine coughed and spat me out. So I thought, OK, if I'm out, I'm out. All the way out. I was a little angry and it was probably an immature reaction. But I got used to it.”

“You talk as if a god had made the Machine," cried the other. "I believe that you pray to it when you are unhappy. Men made it, do not forget that. Great men, but men. The Machine is much, but not everything.”

“One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. ”