We have had the reign of the late Avery Brundage, and now we have
had eight years of Killanin, 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.
-- National Review
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....