Breakfast of champions Quote by Kurt Vonnegut

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

— Bernard Beckett

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 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

It seems probable that once the machine thinking method had started, it would not take long to outstrip our feeble powers… They would be…

— Alan Turing

“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

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

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

— Alan Turing

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

I believe that at the end of the century the use of words and general educated opinion will have altered so much that one…

— Alan Turing

We will not only use the machines for their intelligence, we will also collaborate with them in ways that we cannot even imagine.

— Fei-Fei Li

If the history of resistance to Darwinian thinking is a good measure, we can expect that long into the future, long after every triumph…

— Daniel Dennett

Hardly any original thoughts on mental or social subjects ever make their way among mankind or assume their proper importance in the minds even…

— John Stuart Mill