Tomorrow is the NASDAQ Composite's 50th birthday

 Tomorrow is the NASDAQ Composite's 50th birthday. It started at 100 on Feb 5, 1971.

Nasdaq is an incredible history of success, is the triumph of man aided with a machine, it was a bet on the future vs the present.  

"Nasdaq" was initially an acronym for the National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations.

“Progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things.”
― Robert A. Heinlein

“Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road.”
― Voltaire, Philosophical Dictionary