In the 1950s, I proposed the survivor method of determining the efficient sizes of enterprises, and worked on delivered price systems, vertical integration, and similar topics.

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

After the war, I returned to Minnesota, from which I soon moved to Brown University, and a year later, to Columbia University where I remained from 1947 until 1958.

The Chicago Economics Department was in intellectual ferment, although the central issues of the 1930's 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.

I attended schools in Seattle through the University of Washington, from which I was graduated in 1931. I spent the next year at Northwestern University.

The delicate and intricate pattern of competition and cooperation in the economic behavior of the hundreds of thousands of citizens of Stockholm offers a challenge to the economist that is perhaps as complex as the challenges of the physicist and the chemist.

Even before I came to Chicago, I had gotten interested in the existence of dispersion of prices under conditions which economic theory said would yield a single price.

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.

I started working and publishing in price theory by 1938.

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

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.

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

In the 1950s, I proposed the survivor method of determining the efficient sizes of enterprises, and worked on delivered price systems, vertical integration, and similar topics.

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

A Swedish physicist can not discuss his work with fifty people unless he goes abroad. A Swedish economist can get opinions and instructions in his native language from thousands upon thousands of his fellow citizens.

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

Two years later, I went to the University of Minnesota from which I was on leave for several years during the war as a member of Statistical Research Group at Columbia University.

That subject has lost its one time appeal to economists as our science has become more abstract, but my interest has even grown more intense as the questions raised by the sociology of science became more prominent.

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

A transition period is a period between two transition periods.

A lot of people would rather tour sewers than visit their cousins.

I can feel myself dying inside.

Everything you touch touches you.

In 1958, we decided to go to Australia. We were there for six months, and all the shows went well.

Our God listens to us. Our God is a living God. He's not a block of wood you made up that's not going to answer you. My God listens to me. He answers me.

Our generation was born during the turmoil following the First World War. That war marked the dividing line - at least for the Western World - between the comfortable security of the 19th century and the instability and flux of our own time.

The truth is, I love history and studied it in college, with a particular focus on early American history. My love is so deep, in fact, I went to school at The College of William & Mary in Colonial Williamsburg.

I used to think it a pity that her mother rather than she had not thought of birth control.

The first day I walked into prison, and he slammed that door, I knew the magnitude of the decision that I made, and the poor judgment, and what I allowed to happen to the animals. And, you know, it's no way of explaining the hurt and the guilt that I felt. And that was the reason I cried so many nights.

What is freedom Freedom is the right to choose the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice.

I don't even think of myself as particularly good looking, and not at all a typical kind of Hollywood leading man sort of actor.

I've always known that my father's father and grandfather and grandmother were from Mexico. I've never denied it. I've always said it.

When I'm working, I'm obsessively working.

I think I always was a bit of a class clown, but I don't know how successful I was at that. I always think, when I read about people being class clowns, I imagine them being actually very funny, and I don't know that I was. But I tried to be, I think.

Human beings are social animals; we devote a significant portion of our brain just to dealing with interactions with other humans.

The radio for these women is like television is for us today, which is really like looking at the radio.

And to turn it into rap wasn't too difficult besides just rhymin' the last words of each line.

Authors want their names down in history; I want to keep the smoke coming out of the chimney.

We learned to be patient observers like the owl. We learned cleverness from the crow, and courage from the jay, who will attack an owl ten times its size to drive it off its territory. But above all of them ranked the chickadee because of its indomitable spirit.

On occasion, I hear a rearrangement of a song that really makes me reevaluate it in a way.

I just wanted to say one more thing: I also think that when you go to play music, you're there to play music.

Find joy in everything you choose to do. Every job, relationship, home... it's your responsibility to love it, or change it.

'House of Style' changed my life. I literally had no experience in front of a TV camera before, and there I was taking over for Rebecca Romijn. My exposure heightened instantly.

Never give a golfer an ultimatum unless you're prepared to lose.