B. F. Skinner
Quotes by B. F. Skinner
If you're old, don't try to change yourself, change your environment.
— 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.
— B. F. Skinner
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.
— B. F. Skinner
Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
— B. F. Skinner
The way positive reinforcement is carried out is more important than the amount.
— B. F. Skinner
Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.
— B. F. Skinner
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
— B. F. Skinner