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" The feeling of being interested can act as a kind of neurological signal, directing us to fruitful areas of inquiry. "

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" Properly used, positive reinforcement is extremely powerful. "

" Reinforcement is being right. "

" Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless. "

" The environment will continue to deteriorate until pollution practices are abandoned. "

" What is sought can never produce the seeking. "

" Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten. "

" I don't deny the importance of genetics. However, the fact that I might be altruistic isn't because I have a gene for altruism; the fact that I do something for my children at some cost to myself comes from a history that has operated on me. "

" Give me a child and I'll shape him into anything. "

" 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? "

" I am opposed to the military use of animals. I am also opposed to the military use of men. "

" I never really expected to be controversial. "

" I don't know whether I want to improve religion or not. I prefer to get rid of it. "

" We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading. "

" When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it. "

" The environment shapes people's actions. "

" Religions work for their own aggrandizement - strengthen the church and so on - and they use reinforcers of one kind or another to get obedience and so on from their communicants. "

" Behavior used to be reinforced by great deprivation; if people weren't hungry, they wouldn't work. Now we are committed to feeding people whether they work or not. Nor is money as great a reinforcer as it once was. People no longer work for punitive reasons, yet our culture offers no new satisfactions. "

" I believe that I have been basically anarchistic, anti-religion and anti-industry and business. In other words, anti-bureaucracy. I would like to see people behave well without having to have priests stand by, politicians stand by, or people collecting bills. "

" A person who has been punished is not less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment. "

" If you're old, don't try to change yourself, change your environment. "

" No theory changes what it is a theory about; man remains what he has always been. "

" I would be opposed to any kind of totalitarian control. "

" I'm very pessimistic. "

" I think my novel, 'Walden Two,' has made people stop and look at the culture they have inherited and wonder if it is the last word or whether it can be changed. "

" 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. "

" You can get along very well in this world by simply coming up with a quantity of reasonably valid statements. "

" The people who control the condition in which we live have no reason to think beyond more than the next five or 10 years. "