Something doing every minute’ may be a gesture of despair-or the height of a battle against boredom.
B. F. SKINNERDoes a poet create, originate, initiate the thing called a poem, or is his behavior merely the product of his genetic and environmental histories?
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The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do. The mystery which surrounds a thinking machine already surrounds a thinking man.
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Men build society and society builds men.
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A piece of music is an experience to be taken by itself.
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Some of us learn control, more or less by accident. The rest of us go all our lives not even understanding how it is possible, and blaming our failure on being born the wrong way.
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Going out of style isn’t a natural process, but a manipulated change which destroys the beauty of last year’s dress in order to make it worthless.
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We have seen that in certain respects operant reinforcement resembles the natural selection of evolutionary theory. Just as genetic characteristics which arise as mutations are selected or discarded by their consequences, so novel forms of behavior are selected or discarded through reinforcement.
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We have not yet seen what man can make of man.
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Was putting a man on the moon actually easier than improving education in our public schools?
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The only geniuses produced by the chaos of society are those who do something about it. Chaos breeds geniuses. It offers a man something to be a genius about.
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Chaos breeds geniuses. It offers a man something to be a genius about.
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The major difference between rats and people is that rats learn from experience.
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Somehow people get the idea I think we should be given gumdrops whenever we do anything of value.
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I don’t believe in God, so I’m not afraid of dying.
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Somehow people get the idea I think we should be given gumdrops whenever we do anything of value.
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The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do. The mystery which surrounds a thinking machine already surrounds a thinking man.
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