Today, December 16, is the birthday of Ludvig Von Beethoven, Jane Austen, Arthur C. Clarke and Philip K Dick.
Oh, and also Margaret Mead and Noël Coward. All in all, a good day for birthdays.
Wouldn’t it be wonderful if all of those people could be magically brought together into a room, simply to have a conversation with each other? I would love to be a fly on the wall for that!
Thinking about those people reminds me how important it is to remember the great minds of the past, and all that we have learned from them. As George Santayana said, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”
Today is his birthday too.