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"The fundamental point in fabricating a chain reacting machine is of course to see to it that each fission produces a certain number of neutrons and some of these neutrons will again produce fission."

"It's great to just disappear, grab a suitcase, switch the answering machine on and just go somewhere else."

"When man wanted to make a machine that would walk he created the wheel, which does not resemble a leg."

"Among all the machines, motorcar is my favorite machine."

"Yes, I remember the barbed wire and the guard towers and the machine guns, but they became part of my normal landscape. What would be abnormal in normal times became my normality in camp."

"No more than these machines need the mathematician know what he does."

"Once Miramax gets involved, if they like your movie, there's a big machine that gets involved."
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"A computer would deserve to be called intelligent if it could deceive a human into believing that it was human."

"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."

"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."

"Mathematical reasoning may be regarded rather schematically as the exercise of a combination of two facilities, which we may call intuition and ingenuity."
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