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 main graduate training was received at the University of Chicago from which I received the Ph.D. in 1938.

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.

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

Mathematics has no symbols for confused ideas.

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

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