The environment shapes behavior through the mechanism of reinforcement.
On pivoting: "If you're not stubborn, you'll give up on experiments too soon. And if you're not flexible, you'll pound your head against the wall and you won't see a different solution to a problem you're trying to solve."
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
I pursue no objectives, no systems, no tendency; I have no program, no style, no direction.