“I don't think my mother and father ever had any doubts about what I was to be pu…” — B. F. Skinner

Behavior used to be reinforced by great deprivation; if people weren't hungry, they wouldn't work. Now we are committed to feeding people whether they work or not. Nor is money as great a reinforcer as it once was. People no longer work for punitive reasons, yet our culture offers no new satisfactions.

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

No theory changes what it is a theory about; man remains what he has always been.

The people who control the condition in which we live have no reason to think beyond more than the next five or 10 years.