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• The fathers of the field had been pretty confusing
  John von Neumann speculated about computers and the human brain in analogies sufficiently wild to be worthy of a medieval thinker, and Alan Turing thought about criteria to settle the question of whether machines can think, a question of which we now know that it is about as relevant as the question of whether submarines can swim....
• The question of whether computers can think is just like the question of whether submarines can swim.
  -- Edsger W. Dijkstra...
• The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim.
  -- Edsger W. Dijkstra...
• The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim.
  --E. W. Dijkstra...
• Asking whether machines can think is like asking whether submarines can swim.
• I question whether we can afford to teach mother macrame when Johnny still can't read.
  -- Governor Jerry Brow...
• I know I'm a sick person--the question is whether it's charming or offensive
• We have had the reign of the late Avery Brundage, and now we have had eight years of Killani
  which raises the question of whether being an ass is one of the requirements for the job, or whether the job produces that effect on those who hold it....