X-Received: by 10.224.59.205 with SMTP id m13mr33927842qah.7.1367827567541; Mon, 06 May 2013 01:06:07 -0700 (PDT) Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!news.glorb.com!l3no2605860qak.0!news-out.google.com!y6ni13836qax.0!nntp.google.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.supernews.com!news.supernews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 06 May 2013 03:06:06 -0500 Date: Sun, 05 May 2013 22:06:05 -1000 From: "Elizabeth D. Rather" Reply-To: erather@forth.com Organization: FORTH, Inc. User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.7; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130328 Thunderbird/17.0.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth Subject: Re: offtopic - Critical of the Computer Industry References: In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Lines: 39 X-Trace: sv3-lHiAvbKzTaBZ2h5vaCVv+ZmFEaO17m+3xHDyoCZQ3Ln3g0A8K4PMcAM9FXiSk1aVBIAznTBMs6iHjCj!cliZiUMjfVohqZuQtgxdYydapcrTZ6jLOXcgEvp5oOUgCdDNoKM2zw4BrqC2ok6gzDasBLKlIum2!yLBD0FKekA== X-Complaints-To: www.supernews.com/docs/abuse.html X-DMCA-Complaints-To: www.supernews.com/docs/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 3281 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.forth:22351 On 5/5/13 9:31 PM, visualforth@rocketmail.com wrote: > On Sunday, May 5, 2013 2:06:29 PM UTC-4, AKE wrote: >> There are numerous counter-examples: Knuth -- still productive >> into his eighties, Erdos -- another octagenerian mathematician >> who was tremendously productive. Going back a century, Gauss, Euler. ... >> Chuck Moore is not so young himself. > >> Age and important work I think are not correlated -- in fact, >> I think better work comes with more experience. > > Long ago I read a book "My Success Story" or something link this, written by a German author, claiming that men have their highest mentally productive times in their eighties. His famous example was Konrad Adenauer, who was elected as the first German Chancellor when he was 73, and served fourteen years as German Chancellor. > > So I am looking forward relaxed for my next thirty years. > Yes, people can also be extremely productive for many years. However, I think it's also true that the major innovations are done by young-to-middle aged people. Chuck did his best work in his late 30's, early 40's, IMO. That's not to say, though, that older people can't continue to contribute at an extremely high level. A company of all hot, young innovators with few seasoned managers and implementers will get in trouble sooner or later. Cheers, Elizabeth -- ================================================== Elizabeth D. Rather (US & Canada) 800-55-FORTH FORTH Inc. +1 310.999.6784 5959 West Century Blvd. Suite 700 Los Angeles, CA 90045 http://www.forth.com "Forth-based products and Services for real-time applications since 1973." ==================================================