Carpe Diem! J.Joyce: mistakes - the portals of discovery..... A. Rand: money, integrity, trust, defender of minorities

• 2/2/1882 – birthday of James Joyce, who wrote:

Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America.

I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.

• 2/2/1905 – birthday of Ayn Rand, who wrote

 Money is a tool of exchange, which can't exist unless there are goods produced and men able to produce them. Money is the material shape of the principle that men who wish to deal with one another must deal by trade and give value for value. Money is not the tool of the moochers, who claim your product by tears, or of the looters, who take it from you by force. Money is made possible only by the men who produce. – Atlas Shrugged

The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.