Department of Economics
Southern Methodist University
Dallas, TX 75275-0491
E-mail at
tfomby@smu.edu
Professor Fomby received his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of
Missouri, Columbia. His current research interests include time series
forecasting, especially seasonal time series, and the use of econometric
methods in financial modelling and marketing research.
Some quotes to think about:
"The best thing for being sad ... is to learn something. That is the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honour trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then - to learn. Learn why the world wags and what wags for it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting. Learning is the thing for you."
Merlyn to the young King Arthur, in The Once and Future King, T.H. White.
"You need the willingness to fail all the time. You have to generate many ideas and then you have to work very hard only to discover that they don't work. And you keep doing that over and over until you find one that does work."
John W. Backus, Developer of Fortran, 1924 - 2007.
Last updated: August 14, 2007
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