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.

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

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

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

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.

Mathematics has no symbols for confused ideas.

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