During the early 1960s, I decided to supplement research support for quantitative economic studies at Pennsylvania by selling econometric forecasts to private and public sector buyers.

I, Lawrence Klein, was born in Omaha, Nebraska, as were my elder brother and younger sister.

The completion of my undergraduate training at the University of California (Berkeley) provided just the needed touches of rigor at advanced levels in both economics and mathematics.

Although I was not aware of it at the time, the experience of growing up during the Great Depression was to have a profound impact on my intellectual and professional career.

After my first visit to Japan, in 1960, to work on a joint model building project at Osaka University, I maintained a continuing interest in the country and the entire Far East.

An early fascination with higher mathematics at the university level blossomed into speculative thinking that could provide a basis for dealing with economic issues.

It came as a surprise to find that a professional society and journal (Econometrica) were flourishing, and I entered this area of study with great enthusiasm.

The SSRC committee turned attention from team research for building a model of the United States to doing one for world trade in order to investigate the international transmission mechanism.

It's so hard not to smile.

I don't believe in ever putting a dog down for behavior issues, because that's just punishing the dog for something wrong that humans did.

Sweet discourse makes short daies and nights. [Sweet discourse makes short days and nights.]

The form language used by the ancient Egyptians in their structures is minimal.

The presentation of the Golden Badge of the Movement is the highest honor the Third Reich has to offer.

Everything the Beats stood for was the opposite of the dominant culture today.

See your target. Keep it in your sight. Hit it... until you hit it.

If you pray for a thing, but have fear as you pray, that you may not receive it, or that your prayer will not be acted upon by Infinite Intelligence, your prayer will have been in vain.

It was very natural for me to want to disappear into the theatre, I am really very shy.

The book is here to stay. What we're doing is symbolic of the peaceful coexistence of the book and the computer.