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by dsr_ 2405 days ago
In 1994, my new boss turned to me and said "I've been despairing that no young people seem to have the hacker spirit any more. No sense of technical adventure."

So I reminded him that Socrates was supposed to have said "The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise."

He got over it.