Computers Quote by Anonymous

The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.

— B. F. Skinner

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

— Alan Turing

We are not thinking machines that feel; rather, we are feeling machines that think.

— Antonio Damasio

“The whole thinking process is still rather mysterious to us, but I believe that the attempt to make a thinking machine will help us…

— Andrew Hodges

The study of thinking machines teaches us more about the brain than we can learn by introspective methods. Western man is externalizing himself in…

— William S. Burroughs

The machine does not control the mind of man, though it affects the mind of man; it is the mind of man that can…

— Hilaire Belloc

As machines get to be more and more like men, men will come to be more like machines.

— Joseph Wood Krutch

One thing is certain: the riddle of mind, long a topic for philosophers, has taken on new urgency. Under pressure from the computer, the…

— Sherry Turkle

We are not thinking machines.

— Peter Watts

The mind is not a machine, it is an idea. And the Idea resists all attempts to control it.

— Bernard Beckett

Without doubt machines will be able to determine the means and avenues to goals, but men will continue to set the goals themselves. For…

— Lewis Strauss

We may hope that machines will eventually compete with men in all purely intellectual fields.

— Alan Turing