{"author":"B. F. Skinner","author_id":"B.+F.+Skinner","total_quotes":16,"quotes":[{"text":"The way positive reinforcement is carried out is more important than the amount.","author":"B. F. Skinner","tags":["important","way","than "],"id":1804,"author_id":"B.+F.+Skinner"},{"text":"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.","author":"B. F. Skinner","tags":["life","decisions","me "],"id":9265,"author_id":"B.+F.+Skinner"},{"text":"A person who has been punished is not less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment.","author":"B. F. Skinner","tags":["punishment","way","person "],"id":23858,"author_id":"B.+F.+Skinner"},{"text":"If you're old, don't try to change yourself, change your environment.","author":"B. F. Skinner","tags":["change","yourself "],"id":59157,"author_id":"B.+F.+Skinner"},{"text":"If you insist that individual rights are the summum bonum, then the whole structure of society falls down.","author":"B. F. Skinner","tags":["down","you","rights "],"id":61998,"author_id":"B.+F.+Skinner"},{"text":"We shouldn't teach great books we should teach a love of reading. ","author":"B. F. Skinner","tags":["great","reading","teach "],"id":141121,"author_id":"B.+F.+Skinner"},{"text":"The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.","author":"B. F. Skinner","tags":["men","problem","think "],"id":157971,"author_id":"B.+F.+Skinner"},{"text":"Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.","author":"B. F. Skinner","tags":["early","individual","attacks "],"id":179302,"author_id":"B.+F.+Skinner"},{"text":"Education is what survives when what has been learnt has been forgotten.","author":"B. F. Skinner","tags":["education"],"id":243565,"author_id":"B.+F.+Skinner"},{"text":"Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.","author":"B. F. Skinner","tags":["forgotten","learned","been "],"id":292983,"author_id":"B.+F.+Skinner"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":16,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}