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"Old age and treachery will always beat youth and exuberance" - as misquoted by Jett Reno in Starfleet Academy. I work in academia and the breadth of knowledge
by havaloc 8mo ago
"Old age and treachery will always beat youth and exuberance" - as misquoted by Jett Reno in Starfleet Academy.
I work in academia and the breadth of knowledge on how to get things done by the older workers in a bureaucracy is just astonishing. Lose them at your peril!
- expedition32 8mo agoThe danger is turning into a gerontocracy.
- inglor_cz 8mo agoGiven the plummeting birth rates, that may be inevitable.
- dredmorbius 8mo agoApparently Luke Kaiser is the originator of that form, though there are antecedents: <https://quoteinvestigator.com/2025/06/04/age-treachery/ https://quoteinvestigator.com/2025/06/04/age-treachery/>