What the B.F.?

Three apparent B.F. Skinner devotees have e-mailed (one all the way from Norway) to tell me the quote I attributed to the famed psychologist in Friday's column is wrong.

The quote: "The object of life is to gratify yourself without getting arrested."

I came across it while reading a Walker Percy novel called "The Thanatos Syndrome." The protagonist in the book, a psychiatrist, so quotes Skinner, incorrectly it turns out.

It turns out the object of some people's lives is to search the Internet for incorrect quotes attributed to B.F. Skinner and correct them.

We stand corrected.