Nobody will deny that there is at least some roughness everywhere.

When the weather changes, nobody believes the laws of physics have changed. Similarly, I don't believe that when the stock market goes into terrible gyrations its rules have changed.

There is a saying that every nice piece of work needs the right person in the right place at the right time.

Now that I near 80, I realize with wistful pleasure that on many occasions I was 10, 20, 40, even 50 years ahead of my time.

I don't seek power and do not run around.

I was in an industrial laboratory because academia found me unsuitable.