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Action(s)
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The consequences of an act affect the probability of its occurring again.
-B. F. Skinner
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Computers
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The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-B. F. Skinner, Contingencies of Reinforcement
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Education
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Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-B. F. Skinner
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Failure
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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.
-B. F. Skinner
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Leadership
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Give me a child and I'll shape him into anything.
-B. F. Skinner
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Manners
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Physics does not change the nature of the world it studies, and no science of behavior can change the essential nature of man, even though both sciences yield technologies with a vast power to manipulate the subject matters.
-B. F. Skinner
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Society
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Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.
-B. F. Skinner
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Books by and about B. F. Skinner
