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.

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

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 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.

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

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

It was in the 1960s that I began the detailed study of public regulation.