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?
More Quotes by 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.
A person who has been punished is not less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment.
Those few people who do respond to the dire conditions of the future - journalists, environmentalists, behavioral scientists - tend not to be powerful.
We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading.
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.
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.