George Clinton
Bandleader and songwriter
His mother thought she had to go to the bathroom when he was born. He was destined to be funky.
What would you want written on your gravestone?
Yeah, well, he died of too much of all the right things.
A Martínez, Morning Edition, NPR, 24 March 2026 source ↗
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Amiri Baraka
Poet and playwright
We don't know if he ever died.
David Vélez
Co-founder and chief executive of Nubank
The simplicity and yet profoundness of the above logic leads us to conclude that for us the most natural and truthful path is to invest this wealth until "our last check bounces", as one of our personal heroes, Chuck Feeney, likes to say.
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