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Danh ngôn của B. F. Skinner (Sứ mệnh: 8)

The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.
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.
If you're old, don't try to change yourself, change your environment.
The way positive reinforcement is carried out is more important than the amount.
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.
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 remember when I was a freshman in college, I was still somewhat bothered by... worried... about religion. I remember going to this professor of philosophy and telling him that I had lost my faith.
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.
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.
I don't know whether I want to improve religion or not. I prefer to get rid of it.
Properly used, positive reinforcement is extremely powerful.
If you insist that individual rights are the summum bonum, then the whole structure of society falls down.
A person who has been punished is not less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment.