I recall my mother asking in about 1946 what I was and I replied proudly that I was a professor. A decade later she repeated her question and I repeated my answer. "No promotion?" was her comment.

The Chicago Economics Department was in intellectual ferment, although the central issues of the 1930s were very different from those in later times. I had never before encountered minds of that quality at close quarters and they influenced me strongly.

...it is distressing how often one can guess the answer given to an economic question merely by knowing who asks it.

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

The main insight learned from interdisciplinary studies is the return to specialization

I met my wife, Margaret L. Mack, at the University of Chicago. We were married in 1936. She died in 1970.

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