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• 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...
• 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.
  -- Dijkstra...
• 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....
• Asking whether machines can think is like asking whether submarines can swim.
• We can found no scientific discipline, nor a healthy profession on the technical mistakes of the Department of Defense and IBM.
  -- Edsger W. Dijkstra...
• When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said, in a rather scornful tone, "it means just what I choose it to mean -- neither more nor less.
  The question is," said Alice, "whether you can make words mean so many different things....
• I question whether we can afford to teach mother macrame when Johnny still can't read.
  -- Governor Jerry Brow...