B. F. Skinner

"Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten."

"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."

"I don't know whether I want to improve religion or not. I prefer to get rid of it."

"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."

"If you insist that individual rights are the summum bonum, then the whole structure of society falls down."

"Properly used, positive reinforcement is extremely powerful."

"Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless."

"The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do."

"The way positive reinforcement is carried out is more important than the amount."