I learned to fly an airplane, and had my own airplane during the 1960s.

I had hoped to go to law school, but the war started, and because of the strong feeling that I did not want to kill anybody, I joined the Merchant Marine when I graduated from Berkeley.

To predict the future we would have to know today what we will learn tomorrow which will shape our future actions

Our family life was certainly not intellectual.

I learned to fly an airplane, and had my own airplane during the 1960s.

It was not until I got my first job, at the University of Washington in Seattle, and began playing chess with Don Gordon, a brilliant young theorist, that I learned economic theory.

My early work and publications centered around expanding on the analysis of life insurance in my dissertation and its relationship to investment banking.