Maskin on Hurwicz

From an email:

But it is Leo's personality that will be remembered most fondly by those who knew him. A warm and charming man, he had a deadpan sense of humorthat could turn somewhat sharp on occasion. Once a visiting seminarspeaker wrote a theorem on the blackboard. Asserting that the result was"obvious," the speaker looked around the room, daring anyone tochallenge him. Leo piped up immediately: "Is that proof by intimidation?"