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

If you never miss a plane, you’re spending too much time at the airport.

Friedman stumbled in, late to the seminar as usual and reeking of cigar smoke and whiskey. He hadn't read the paper being presented, and halfway through he just gets up, walks up to the podium, socks the mother****er right in the face and takes a piss all over his lecture notes.

My teaching began in 1936 at Iowa State College where T. W. Schultz was the department chairman.

...the number of saintly men has not yet risen to the level where the census makes them a separate statistical category.

There is only one social science and we are its practitioners

Competition is a tough weed, not a delicate flower.