The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
B. F. SKINNERTo say that behaviors have different ‘meanings’ is only another way of saying that they are controlled by different variables.
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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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Give me a child and I’ll shape him into anything.
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I did not direct my life. I didn’t design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That’s what life is.
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Indeed one of the ultimate advantages of an education is simply coming to the end of it.
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When we say that a man controls himself, we must specify who is controlling whom.
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The problem of far greater importance remains to be solved. Rather than build a world in which we shall all live well, we must stop building one in which it will be impossible to live at all.
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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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We admire people to the extent that we cannot explain what they do, and the word ‘admire’ then means ‘marvel at.’
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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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The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
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A permissive government is a government that leaves control to other sources.
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Men build society and society builds men.
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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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Somehow people get the idea I think we should be given gumdrops whenever we do anything of value.
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The major difference between rats and people is that rats learn from experience.
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