William S. Burroughs Quotes
Is Control controlled by its need to control? Answer: yes.
Burroughs, William S. The Adding Machine: Selected Essays. Seaver Books, 1986.
The line is spoken by the captain of a nuclear submarine.
Burrhus Frederic Skinner. Skinner was speaking in a scientific, technical sense. No one is free, in the sense that he is not conditioned by his interaction with his environment and his society. However different cultures can condition its members to act independently from different forces in society and behave originally. Everyone is conditioned by his/her society; the conditioning methods are more or less coercive. Those that use negative reinforcers tend to be tyrannical, cruel and inhumane. Those that use positive reinforcers tend to be what we call free,
William Seward Burroughs II was an American writer, visual artist, spoken word performer and chaos magician credited as a primary figure of the Beat Generation and a major postmodern author who influenced popular culture and literature. Burroughs wrote eighteen novels and novellas, six collections of short stories and four collections of essays, and five books have been published of his interviews and correspondences. He also collaborated on projects and recordings with numerous performers and musicians and made many appearances in films. He was also briefly known by the pen name William Lee. Burroughs created and exhibited thousands of paintings and other visual artworks, including his celebrated 'Shotgun Art'.
