Joseph Mignone

“Similarly, classroom reprimands sometimes function as reinforcers because of the attention that goes with them (from classmates as well as from the teacher).3 If a “reward” has no effect on a behavior, then it’s not a reward: Again, it’s what actually happens that matters.”
― Susan M. Schneider, The Science of Consequences: How They Affect Genes, Change the Brain, and Impact Our World

“Social distinctions can be based only on common utility.” —Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen, article 1, 1789”
― Thomas Piketty, Capital in the Twenty-First Century

“Everything that can be thought at all can be thought clearly. Everything that can be said can be said clearly.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

“I then allowed complexities that produced first life and then intelligence, and use it as a source for a research team, not because I need the aid, but because it would introduce a new random factor. I found I could not predict the next interesting piece of knowledge gained, where it would come from, by what means derived.”
― Anonymous