"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."
— B. F. Skinner

January 1, 1970

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As quoted in "Unpacking the Skinner Box : Revisiting B. F. Skinner through a Postformal Lens" by Dana Salter in The Praeger Handbook of Education and Psychology Vol. 4 (2008) edited by Joe L. Kincheloe and Raymond A. Horn, Ch. 99, p. 872