"Hypnosis has been a seriously neglected factor of the human mind; now it must be attacked as a major engineering problem. For once, we have an aspect of the mind that ties directly into a solid engineering job; it will require that psychology submit to that harshest of all disciplines—the absolutely inflexible, utterly autocratic, uncompromisingly dogmatic discipline of “Does it work?”"
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Design Flaw (editorial) in Analog Science Fiction and Fact, October 1955, p. 92
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John W. Campbell
John Wood Campbell, Jr. (8 June 1910 – 11 July 1971) was an American science fiction editor and writer, known for his challenges to writers.
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