The environment will continue to deteriorate until pollution practices are abandoned.
From B. F. Skinner
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.
The ideal of behaviorism is to eliminate coercion: to apply controls by changing the environment in such a way as to reinforce the kind of behavior that benefits everyone.
The way positive reinforcement is carried out is more important than the amount.
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
Reinforcement is being right.
When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.
Properly used, positive reinforcement is extremely powerful.
Must we wait for selection to solve the problems of overpopulation, exhaustion of resources, pollution of the environment and a nuclear holocaust, or can we take explicit steps to make our future more secure? In the latter case, must we not transcend selection?
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