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" The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do. "

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

" The environment shapes people's actions. "

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

" Properly used, positive reinforcement is extremely powerful. "

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

" Those few people who do respond to the dire conditions of the future - journalists, environmentalists, behavioral scientists - tend not to be powerful. "

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

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" The First Industrial Revolution used water and steam power to mechanize production. The Second used electric power to create mass production. The Third used electronics and information technology to automate production. "

" The consequences of an act affect the probability of its occurring again. "

" We have not yet seen what man can make of man. "

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" 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. "

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

" Even the mundane task of washing dishes by hand is an example of the small tasks and personal activities that once filled people's daily lives with a sense of achievement. "

" 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. "

" Technology is a useful servant but a dangerous master. "

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

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