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.

Punitive measures whether administered by police, teachers, spouses or parents have well known standard effects: (1) escape-education has its own name for that: truancy, (2) counterattack-vandalism on schools and attacks on teachers, (3) apathy-a sullen do-nothing withdrawal. The more violent the punishment, the more serious the by-products.

I've had only one idea in my life - a true idee fixe. To put it as bluntly as possible - the idea of having my own way. 'Control!' expresses it. The control of human behavior. In my early experimental days it was a frenzied, selfish desire to dominate. I remember the rage I used to feel when a prediction went awry. I could have shouted at the subjects of my experiments, 'Behave, damn you! Behave as you ought!

It is a mistake to suppose that the whole issue is how to free man. The issue is to improve the way in which he is controlled.

Problem-solving typically involves the construction of discriminative stimuli

A first principle not formally recognized by scientific methodologists: when you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.

The speaker does not feel the grammatical rules he is said to apply in composing sentences, and men spoke grammatically for thousands of years before anyone knew there were rules.