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.
Education is what survives when what has been learnt has been forgotten.
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’re old, don’t try to change yourself, change your environment.
I don’t know whether I want to improve religion or not. I prefer to get rid of it.
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 way positive reinforcement is carried out is more important than the amount.
Properly used, positive reinforcement is extremely powerful.
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 real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.
If you insist that individual rights are the summum bonum, then the whole structure of society falls down.