Give me a child and I’ll shape him into anything.
B. F. SKINNERWhat is love except another name for the use of positive reinforcement? Or vice versa.
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A permissive government is a government that leaves control to other sources.
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I may say that the only differences I expect to see revealed between the behavior of the rat and man (aside from enormous differences of complexity) lie in the field of verbal behavior.
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The way positive reinforcement is carried out is more important than the amount.
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When we say that a man controls himself, we must specify who is controlling whom.
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Something doing every minute’ may be a gesture of despair-or the height of a battle against boredom.
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Behavior is determined by its consequences.
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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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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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A scientist may not be sure of the answer, but he’s often sure he can find one. And that’s a condition which is clearly not enjoyed by philosophy.
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The consequences of an act affect the probability of its occurring again.
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What is love except another name for the use of positive reinforcement? Or vice versa.
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If the world is to save any part of its resources for the future, it must reduce not only consumption but the number of consumers.
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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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To require a citizen to sign a loyalty oath is to destroy some of the loyalty he could otherwise claim, since any subsequent loyal behavior may then be attributed to the oath.
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