Vernon L. Smith famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

After graduating in engineering I went to the University of Kansas to get an MA in economics as a vehicle for allowing me to decide if I wanted to continue in economics.
-- Vernon L. Smith

#Engineering #Kansas #Graduates
I can still memory - taste the fresh buttermilk pancakes and hot buttermilk biscuits - both made with lard! - that were cooked on the top, or in the oven, of that ancient iron stove.
-- Vernon L. Smith

#Memories #Iron #Taste
After my stellar first grade academic achievements, I continued to perform well in the city primary schools - except for penmanship, which was not my forte.
-- Vernon L. Smith

#School #Cities #Achievement
I still have my original social security card signed when I was 13.
-- Vernon L. Smith

#Cards #Social #Stills
Caltech was a meat grinder like I could never have imagined.
-- Vernon L. Smith

#Meat
Yes, long hours and a hard life for my parents, but for a six to seven year old every new day dawned with fresh excitement when you have not a care in the world, and so much to learn and witness.
-- Vernon L. Smith

#Years #New Day #Long
Hayek, in my view, is the leading economic thinker of the 20th century.
-- Vernon L. Smith

#Views #Hayek #Economic

In my fool hardy youth, when my friends were dreaming of heroic deeds in the realms of engineering and law, finance and national politics, I dreamt of becoming a librarian.
Our engineering departments build freeways which destroy a city or a landscape, in the process.
I'm from Kansas, so there were a lot of vacant lots and open fields to tackle each other in so we could avoid tackling each other on the street. But running on the street and trying not to get taken down on the concrete, that will make you fast, that's for sure.
First of all, I'm a Midwesterner, being from Kansas, and Chicago is basically a big Midwestern cow town. It was built from the stockyards, and everyone is very friendly, and it's at the edge of the tallgrass prairie. There's just a good feel to it.
My first job was with an auto plant, Kansas City - they treated you like slaves. From there I went back to Chicago, worked in steel mills, drove a cab, stuff like that.
I remember thinking, in Kansas my name will be Evett - which is my middle name. I didn't want to explain to anyone how to say Em-a-yat-zee.
In England "The Day After," though unpopular with viewers, seems to have confirmed the average Englishman's mindless prejudice against Kansas. Shortly after the film portrayed that state being turned into an overused barbecue pit by nuclear weapons, support for British nuclear weapons rose a full percentage point.
He's a full-fledged housewife from Kansas with all the prejudices.
Most hackers graduate from Unix and Linux platforms. They know them intimately. They don't try to exploit them
The best thing about graduating from the university was that I finally had time to sit on a log and read a good book.

Vernon L. Smith famous quotes

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