ABSTRACT
I met Patrick Suppes on 18 March 2014 in his office at Stanford's Center for Study of Language and Information. Until his passing away in November of that same year, he was still actively engaged in research at the Suppes Brain Research Lab, a laboratory that he had founded in the 1990s and where he investigated questions around language and human cognition. We had arranged the interview long before our meeting, and when he entered the center, it became clear how busy he still was: responsibilities from various sides before the interview; phone calls and signature requests in between the interview. He had already reached the age of 92, but seemed more energetic than many colleagues half a century younger. This energy was also what struck me during the interview. I had probably not met somebody as broadly literate and eloquently articulated as Suppes before. That itself might not mean much. And it confirmed in a way what I had repeatedly read and heard about him from his former colleagues and his admirers who had interacted with and had followed him throughout his career. But what means much, I think, is that I was able to confirm this observation when he had reached his 90s.
