“Mathematical reasoning may be regarded rather schematically as the exercise of a combination of two facilities, which we may call intuition and ingenuity.”
英语
“数学推理可以被简略地视为两种能力的结合运用，我们可以称之为直觉与巧思。”
“We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.”
英语
“我们只能看到不远的前方，但那里有很多需要我们去做的事情。”
“Machines take me by surprise with great frequency.”
英语
“机器经常让我感到惊讶。”
“A computer would deserve to be called intelligent if it could deceive a human into believing that it was human.”
英语
“如果一台计算机能欺骗人类使其相信它是人类，那么它就值得被称为智能的。”
“The original question, "Can machines think?" I believe to be too meaningless to deserve discussion. Nevertheless 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.”
英语
“最初的问题"机器能思考吗？"我认为太无意义，不值得讨论。尽管如此，我相信到本世纪末，词语的使用和一般的受教育者的观点将发生很大变化，以至于人们能够谈论机器思考而不会被反驳。”
“No, I'm not interested in developing a powerful brain. All I'm after is just a mediocre brain, something like the President of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company.”
英语
“不，我对开发一个强大的大脑不感兴趣。我追求的只是一个普通的大脑，差不多像美国电话电报公司总裁那样的。”
“Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition.”
英语
“科学是一个微分方程。宗教是一个边界条件。”