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"My own work in spin glass and its consequences has formed some of the intellectual basis for these interests."
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"The world system is employment."

"My favourite all-time work of fiction: Lord of the Rings. My favourite all-time nonfiction book: Guns, Germs, and Steel. Ask me again next week, you'll get a different answer."
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"An important impression was my father's one Sabbatical year, spent in England and Europe in 1937."

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"The field of quantum valence fluctuations was another older interest which became much more active during this period, partly as a consequence of my own efforts."
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