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According to Forbes, Mark Zuckerberg was quoted as saying: “I want to stress the importance of being young and technical. Young people are just smarter.” This

• jjeaff 6y ago
  Ha, ya, and that is such a stupid, young person thing to say. It's just not true in almost any case. I used to compete in high school and collegiate trivia competitions and so I spent a long time studying for those type of competitions. I have a good memory and could remember a great deal of what I had read. But I quickly learned that there were only so many hours in the day, and I had only been alive for so many days. It is just extremely hard to out study or out smart years and years of experience. When someone has been alive and cognitively able for 20+ years more than another person, they will inevitably have come across more information than the younger person could possibly have digested. Even if they aren't really trying and don't have the best memory. This is not to say that knowing facts = smart. But just like being alive a lot longer gives you more facts, it also gives you a lot more experience. Being young might mean you can think and learn a little faster, but I'll take knowledge and experience over speed any day.
• HarryHirsch 6y ago
  It's Facebook, it's not William Kahan working at HP on floating-point math algorithms for memory-constrained calculators. Nowadays it's just library lego instead of deep work.