But restraint is the only one sort of control, and absence of restraint isn’t freedom. It’s not control that’s lacking when one feels ‘free’, but the objectionable control of force.
B. F. SKINNERSociety attacks early, when the individual is helpless.
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The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
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The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
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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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To say that behaviors have different ‘meanings’ is only another way of saying that they are controlled by different variables.
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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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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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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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Let men be happy, informed, skillful, well behaved, and productive.
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The simulated approval and affection with which parents and teachers are often urged to solve behavior problems are counterfeit. So are flattery, backslap-ping, and many other ways of “winning friends.
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When we say that a man controls himself, we must specify who is controlling whom.
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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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It is not a question of starting. The start has been made. It’s a question of what’s to be done from now on.
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What is love except another name for the use of positive reinforcement? Or vice versa.
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We do not choose survival as a value, it chooses us.
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The speaker does not feel the grammatical rules he is said to apply in composing sentences, and men spoke grammatically for thousands of years before anyone knew there were rules.
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