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“Old men tend to forget what thought was like in their youth; they forget the quickness of the mental jump, the daring of the youthful intuition, the agility of the fresh insight. They become accustomed to the more plodding varieties of reason,…”
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“and because this is more than made up for by the accumulation of experience, old men think themselves wiser than the young.” — Pebble in the Sky, 1951, written by Asimov when he was 31 🤔
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When I was young I had all sorts of great insights. I thought they were original. They were not; they were old ideas I had picked up in the water supply. I just didn't know enough to realize that.