Seeing Milton Freedman on Phil Donahue changed my life.
I heard him speak on two occasions and was lucky enough to have dinner with him twice. I was a grad student at the time and my advisor was a close friend with Friedman. On one of those occasions, my advisor, Friedmand, and three of their friends joined us for dinner. My advisor and I were the only ones at the table who were not Nobel Laureates. I was so intimidated I don’t think I said more that a dozen words the entire evening. BTW, Friedman’s philosophy is nowhere near what who_would_fardels_bear suggests.