The original question, 'Can machines think?' I believe to be too meaningless to deserve discussion.

“But why?” he asked Deliamber.
The Vroon replied, “Why? is a useless question in matters of spiritual progress.”

Science is meaningless because it gives no answer to our question, the only question important for us: 'what shall we do and how shall we live

Where any answer is possible, all answers are meaningless.

The most boring and unproductive question one can ask of any religion is whether or not it is true.

Science and education, when devoid of a social conscience or environmental and human concern, are meaningless.

Most propositions and questions that have been written about philosophical matters are not false but senseless.

Our conviction that the world is meaningless is due in part to the fact (discussed in a later paragraph) that the philosophy of meaningless lends itself very effectively to furthering the ends of political and erotic passion; in part to a genuine intellectual error - the error of identifying the world of science, a world from which all meaning has deliberately been excluded, with ultimate reality.

It is unscientific to suppose meaningless cases.

To ask whether what the American people in the Declaration of Independence had affirmed as truth was in fact truth, was now said to be meaningless. But if History or Progress or 'change' is to be our guide, if the truth of relativism is to replace the truth of the Declaration, then the cause for which the nation fought at its birth, and in the Civil War, was meaningless, too. White power, black power, the Nazis, the Ku Klux Klan, Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, are as justifiable as Jefferson, Lincoln, or the doctrine of the equal natural rights of all human beings. We may understand how the Rev. Jeremiah Wright could so awfully misunderstand the American political tradition, inasmuch as it has been so very misunderstood for so long in circles from whom a better understanding could be expected. But this misunderstanding is a cancer which can in the end prove fatal, not only to a political campaign but to our country.

Most propositions and questions, that have been written about philosophical matters, are not false, but senseless. ... (They are of the same kind as the question whether the Good is more or less identical than the Beautiful.)

If the universe is meaningless, so is the statement that it is so. If this world is a vicious trap, so is its accuser, and the pot is calling the kettle black.

"A philosophical problem of no importance or meaning," Joe said. "And incapable of being proved one way or the other."

Everything purposeful is meaningless, and everything meaningful is purposeless.