In the spring of 1985 I was a graduate student at M.I.T., and Gian-Carlo Rota was my advisor. Once he told me that, when he was a young assistant professor at M.I.T., one evening Norbert Wiener (who was already a legend both at M.I.T. and outside of M.I.T.) walked into his office and asked him: "Have you read my book?" (Wiener had just finished his two-volume autobiography "Prodigy" and "I am a mathematician") to which Rota replied "yes". Then Wiener sat down and said: "Tell me ... Chapter 3".