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One of the nice things about being old and having grand
students, and great grand students, and everything else
is, that you can not only take pride in your own
accomplishments, but you can take pride in the
accomplishments of those that you may have influenced.
And so I'm really proud of you guys.
Well, we feel like the grand students when we talk to our
professors like Jerry and Brad.
The thing that makes me feel old is that I've got grand
students of my own now.
Well, you can take pride in all of them.
So Jerry, you've retired.
You retired about two years ago, but I don't think there's
been a day when I haven't seen you in the office.
Well, I'm not here every day, but I'm here
a lot of the time.
Yeah.
I'm retired like Leo Breiman was retired, and for a long
time, Charles Stein was retired.
He came in every day for a long, long time.
And Leo, many of his best accomplishments were after he
retired, research accomplishments.
But it seems you still feel excited by the field.
Oh, yeah.
There's more to do, definitely more to do.
And of course, very gratified that something that I was
intellectually interested in for all this time has now
become very popular and very important.
I mean, data has risen to the top.
My only regret is two of my mentors who also pushed it
probably harder and more effectively than I did,
namely, John Tukey and Leo Breiman, are not around to
actually see how data has triumphed over,
say, theorem proving.