REPORTER: Now, doctor, will you give me in a few words the low-down on all your investigations?
DIRAC: No.
REPORTER: Will it be all right if I put it this way --- "Professor Dirac solves all the problems of mathematical physics, but is unable to find a better way of figuring out Babe Ruth's batting average?"
DIRAC: Yes.
REPORTER: What do you like best in America?
DIRAC: Potatoes.

Interview of Paul Dirac, founder of quantam electrodynamics, in the Wisconsin State Journal, April 31, 1929