It's official: The lunatics are now running the asylum.

Imagine yourself in 80,000BC, the Ice Age, and someone gives you $10,000. Then they give you $10,000 more the next day and the day after that and every day for 82,024 years until today.

If you never spent a penny of it you still wouldn’t have as much money as Elon Musk.

"One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion. So now people assume that religion and morality have a necessary connection. But the basis of morality is really very simple and doesn't require religion at all."

-- Arthur C. Clarke, born
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1917

If you’re afraid that books might change someone’s thinking, you’re not afraid of books, you’re afraid of thinking.

A personal favorite. The older I get, the more poignant it becomes...