“No one asks how to motivate a baby. A baby naturally explores everything it can get at, unless restraining forces have already been at work. And this tendency doesn't die out, it's wiped out.”
Source: Walden Two
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American behaviorist 1904–1990Related quotes

Source: A Wild Sheep Chase: A Novel (1982)
Context: I watched an old American submarine movie on television. The creaking plot had the captain and first officer constantly at each other’s throat. The submarine was a fossil, and one guy had claustrophobia. But all that didn’t stop everything from working out well in the end. It was an everything-works-out-in-the-end-so-maybe-war’s-not-so-bad-after-all sort of film. One of these days they’ll be making a film where the whole human race gets wiped out in a nuclear war, but everything works out in the end.

When the Leaves Blow Away (2006), I Still Have a Pony (2007)

"Ask Tina" segment from NBC's 30 Rock website

Podcast Series 1 Episode 3
On Sex

“Can you keep a secret?”
“Me and Tupperware, baby. We seal tight. Ain’t nothing going to get out.”
Source: Infamous

I don’t see why I should buy a hundred-dollar dog for that damn baby.
“Chablis”, opening
Forty Stories (1987)
“We only have babies when we're young enough not to know how grim life turns out.”
Source: Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West