Computers Quote by Anonymous

The question of whether computers can think is like the question of whether submarines can swim.

— Anonymous

“Asking whether computers can think is like asking whether submarines can swim.”

— CJS Hayward

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

— Edsger Dijkstra

The programmers have another saying: 'The question of whether a machine can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine…

— Charles Stross

The big question society will have to answer is whether it wants computers thinking like humans.

— David Smith

Computers are like humans - they do everything except think.

— John von Neumann

It would appear that we have reached the limits of what it is possible to achieve with computer technology, although one should be careful…

— John von Neumann

The original question, 'Can machines think?' I believe to be too meaningless to deserve discussion.

— Alan Turing

If computers where humans.

— Wills Jojo

With thought comprising a non-computational element, computers can never do what we human beings can.

— Roger Penrose

These machines have no common sense; they have not yet learned to "think," and they do exactly as they are told, no more and…

— Donald Knuth

We think computing ought to be like a telephone or a water tap or a light switch.

— Scott McNealy