"If you're old, don't try to change yourself, change your environment."
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"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."
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."
B. F. Skinner"I won't say that I'm an agnostic, since agnosticism maintains that one cannot know... but I'm not averse to the idea of some intelligence or some organizing force that set up the initial conditions of the universe in such a way that ultimately generated stars, planets and life."
B. F. Skinner"The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do."
B. F. Skinner"Properly used, positive reinforcement is extremely powerful."
B. F. Skinner"The way positive reinforcement is carried out is more important than the amount."
B. F. Skinner"Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless."
B. F. Skinner"If you insist that individual rights are the summum bonum, then the whole structure of society falls down."
B. F. Skinner"Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten."
B. F. Skinner