I think my novel, 'Walden Two,' has made people stop and look at the culture they have inherited and wonder if it is the last word or whether it can be changed.

I don't think my mother and father ever had any doubts about what I was to be punished for or not. My parents come from a very strictly defined culture.

Behavior used to be reinforced by great deprivation; if people weren't hungry, they wouldn't work. Now we are committed to feeding people whether they work or not. Nor is money as great a reinforcer as it once was. People no longer work for punitive reasons, yet our culture offers no new satisfactions.

The last romantic novel I think I read was 'Tess of the d'Urbervilles.'

The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do. The mystery which surrounds a thinking machine already surrounds a thinking man.

The people who control the condition in which we live have no reason to think beyond more than the next five or 10 years.