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.
From B. F. Skinner
I'm very pessimistic.
I don't think my mother and father ever had any doubts about what I was to be punished for or not. My parents come from a very strictly defined culture.
A person who has been punished is not less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment.
Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.
The feeling of being interested can act as a kind of neurological signal, directing us to fruitful areas of inquiry.
We have not yet seen what man can make of man.
No theory changes what it is a theory about; man remains what he has always been.
I have to tell people that they are not responsible for their behavior. They're not creating it; they're not initiating anything. It's all found somewhere else. That's an awful lot to relinquish.
You can get along very well in this world by simply coming up with a quantity of reasonably valid statements.
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