Quotes on machines

If a machine is expected to be infallible, it cannot also be intelligent.

There is no law that says machines must be built according to their original design.

The question of whether machines can think is about as relevant as the question of whether submarines can swim.

Machines can do the work of a hundred men, but they cannot do the work of one human being.

In the end, machines will make our lives easier, but it is people who will make the world better.

It is not the machines that matter, but the people who build them.

Machines take me by surprise with great frequency.

I believe that at the end of the century the use of words and general educated opinion will have altered so much that one will be able to speak of machines thinking without expecting to be contradicted.

If a machine is expected to be infallible, it cannot also be intelligent.

I'm afraid that the following syllogism may be used by some in the future: Turing believes machines think; Turing lies with men; therefore machines do not think.