Common Quote by Donald Knuth

Computers are like humans - they do everything except think.

— John von Neumann

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

We have to make machines understand what they're doing, or they won't be able to come back and say, 'Why did you do that?

— Nicholas Negroponte

We are not thinking machines.

— Peter Watts

What do such machines really do? They increase the number of things we can do without thinking. Things we do without thinking-there’s the real…

— Frank Herbert

So, in the interests of survival, they trained themselves to be agreeing machines instead of thinking machines. All their minds had to do was…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“In the twenty-first century it sounds childish to compare the human psyche to a steam engine. Today we know of a far more sophisticated…

— Yuval Noah Harari

Human thinking can skip over a great deal, leap over small misunderstandings, can contain ifs and buts in untroubled corners of the mind. But…

— Ellen Ullman

The computer is a mind machine. It doesn't have its own psychology, but in a way it presents itself as though it does.

— Sherry Turkle

For the moment, machines able to 'think' in anything approaching a human sense remain science-fiction. How we should prepare for their potential emergence, however,…

— Tom Chatfield

Computers are magnificent tools for the realization of our dreams, but no machine can replace the human spark of spirit, compassion, love, and understanding.

— Anonymous