Leo Hurwicz is the father of mechanism design theory and has inspired much of my work, and Roger Myerson is an old friend and collaborator and a tremendous economist.

Of course, MIT was notable not just for its faculty but also for its students. And, facing such extremely bright kids as a rookie teacher was something like being thrown to the wolves.

The theory of mechanism design can be thought of as the 'engineering' side of economic theory.

It was strange that one couldn’t know in advance which places one was later going to wish to remember.

And whether you're an honest man or whether you're a thief depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief.

I think faith is vitally important to your day, your seconds in each day. Faith helps to get you through the day.

We Americans have the great gifts of freedom and democracy, but it has been our education system that has fulfilled the promise of democracy.

Conquer or be conquered.

Plato affirmed that the soul was immortal and clothed in many bodies successively.

The merit of a democratic regime rests on one's continual willingness to exchange views, and to compete on the basis of individual merit and capacities.

When did the lemons learn the same creed as the sun?

Tactics mean doing what you can with what you have.

I didn't invent the middle finger, but I perfected the use of it.