Quotes by B. Skinner

• If you're old, don't try to change yourself, change your environment.
• Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.
• Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
• The consequences of an act affect the probability of it's occurring again.
• The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
• The way positive reinforcement is carried out is more important than the amount.
• We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading.
• 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.
• Give me a child and I'll shape him into anything.
• 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.