Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.
Properly used, positive reinforcement is extremely powerful.
Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
If you're old, don't try to change yourself, change your environment.
A person who has been punished is not less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment.
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
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.
We shouldn't teach great books we should teach a love of reading.
If you insist that individual rights are the summum bonum, then the whole structure of society falls down.
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 way positive reinforcement is carried out is more important than the amount.
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...
I don't know whether I want to improve religion or not. I prefer to get rid of it.
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...
I will be dead in a few months. But it hasn't given me the slightest anxiety or worry. I always knew I was going to die.