The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do. The mystery which surrounds a thinking machine already surrounds a thinking man.
B. F. SKINNERA person’s genetic endowment, a product of the evolution of the species, is said to explain part of the workings of his mind and his personal history the rest.
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A disappointment is not generally an oversight. It might just be the best one can do the situation being what it is. The genuine error is to quit attempting.
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If you’re old, don’t try to change yourself, change your environment.
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A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.
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A disappointment is not generally an oversight. It might just be the best one can do the situation being what it is. The genuine error is to quit attempting.
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Society already possesses the psychological techniques needed to obtain universal observance of a code – a code which would guarantee the success of a community or state. The difficulty is that these techniques are in the hands of the wrong people-or, rather, there aren’t any right people.
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We do not choose survival as a value, it chooses us.
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It has always been the task of formal education to set up behavior which would prove useful or enjoyable later in a student’s life.
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If freedom is a requisite for human happiness, then all that’s necessary is to provide the illusion of freedom.
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A disappointment is not generally an oversight. It might just be the best one can do the situation being what it is. The genuine error is to quit attempting.
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An important fact about verbal behavior is that speaker and listener may reside within the same skin.
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Does 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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A permissive government is a government that leaves control to other sources.
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Was putting a man on the moon actually easier than improving education in our public schools?
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A first principle not formally recognized by scientific methodologists: when you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.
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Science is a willingness to accept facts even when they are opposed to wishes.
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