based-soviet-quotes.md

Source	Quote(s)	Link
Nikolai Amosov, Artificial Reason (1969)	“The creation of artificial reason is only a matter of time. People have learned to create artificial systems approaching natural ones in complexity. We should expect them to surpass this level.” “The diversity of natural modeling systems proves that it is possible to create a reason superior to the human.” “Artificial reason will inevitably turn into a personality as soon as self-organization is reproduced in it.” “It is quite possible that a time will come when artificial reason will be able not only to design machines, but to write poetry and music and discover new laws of nature.” “The creation and improvement of reason is necessary for the purposes of knowledge and the optimal control of complex systems—the organism, the psyche, and society.” “A factory of artificial organisms is entirely conceivable—from primitive robots to the most complex intelligences—that could operate without human help. It would provide not only mass production but unlimited variability, designing ever-new species with new qualities.” “Reason is on the main road of the world’s development, which can be delayed but not stopped.”	PDF scan
Andrei Kolmogorov, “Automata and Life” (1961)	“Life can be analyzed in its entirety, including human consciousness with all its complexity, by the methods of cybernetics.” “I belong to those extremely desperate cyberneticians who see no fundamental limitations in the cybernetic approach to the problem of life.”	Online text
Aksel Berg, remarks at a 1967 cybernetics meeting	“When the computer enters our home, there will be no need to call a doctor; the machine will tell you what to do.”	MIT Press — Slava Gerovitch, From Newspeak to Cyberspeak
Aksel Berg, remarks on cybernetics and controllability	“There are no unknowable phenomena, only unknown ones; likewise, there are no uncontrollable processes, only those in which the complexity of the task is not yet matched by the methods and means for its solution.”	Four Lives of Academician Berg — online text
Viktor Glushkov, “Thinking and Cybernetics” (1963)	“Thus one can conclude that, in purely informational terms, cybernetic machines not only can but necessarily must surpass man, and in a number of still relatively narrow fields they already do so today.”	Computer Museum text
Viktor Glushkov, Confession of a Scientist (1982 recollections)	“From the very beginning we began developing the direction called artificial intelligence, connected with building intelligent machines and corresponding programs.”	Computer Museum text
Viktor Glushkov, Macroeconomic Models and Principles for Building OGAS (1975)	“An effective system of economic management is possible today only on the basis of dialogue in human–machine systems.”	Digitized book
Anatoly Kitov, Cybernetics and Management of the National Economy (1961)	“Under socialism it is entirely possible to create a comprehensive automated system for managing the country’s economy.”	PDF scan
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, “The Cosmic Philosophy”	“Mankind will turn as it were into one powerful being under the rule of its president.”	English text
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, “Is There a God?”	“The unification can go further: for a group of suns, a star heap, the Milky Way, an etheric island, and so endlessly, until it reaches the unification of the whole cosmos.”	English text
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, “Necessity of Cosmic Mindset” (1934)	“Therefore, every reasonable being must enter into the spirit of history of the Universe. Such a supreme worldview is essential.”	English text