Competition is a tough weed, not a delicate flower.

The delicate and intricate pattern of competition and cooperation in the economic behavior of the hundreds of thousands of citizens of Stockholm offers a challenge to the economist that is perhaps as complex as the challenges of the physicist and the chemist.

My interests were aroused, and my faith in the cliches of the subject destroyed, as so often with other subjects, by the discussions with my friend, Aaron Director.

And yet I would not freely exchange my science for those of my fellow laureates. They are forever confined in their professional discussions to the small numbers of their fellow scientists.

Stigler's Law: No scientific discovery is named after its original discoverer.

Theories are not rejected by cirsumstantial evidence: it takes a theory to beat a theory.

In 1958, I came to Chicago where I have remained.