…not everyone is willing to defend a position of ‘not knowing.’ There is no virtue in ignorance for its own sake.
B. F. SKINNERWhat is love except another name for the use of positive reinforcement? Or vice versa.
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Do not intervene between a person and the consequences of their own behavior.
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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 vast technology has been developed to prevent, reduce, or terminate exhausting labor and physical damage. It is now dedicated to the production of the most trivial conveniences and comfort.
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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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Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.
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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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The way positive reinforcement is carried out is more important than the amount.
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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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When we say that a man controls himself, we must specify who is controlling whom.
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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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Let men be happy, informed, skillful, well behaved, and productive.
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Men build society and society builds men.
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A 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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What 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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