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• The question of whether computers can think is just like the question of whether submarines can swim.
  -- Edsger 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....
• 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...
• The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do. -- B.F. Skinne
• Comparing information and knowledge is like asking whether the fatness of a pig is more or less green than the designated hitter rule.
  -- David Guaspari...