george carlin

"I’m 71, and I’ve been doing this for a little over 50 years, doing it at a fairly visible level for 40. 

By this time it’s all second nature. It’s all a machine that works a certain way: the observations, the immediate evaluation of the observation, and then the mental filing of it, or writing it down on a piece of paper. 

I’ve often described the way a 20-year-old versus, say, a 60- or a 70-year-old, the way it works. 

A 20-year-old has a limited amount of data they’ve experienced, either seeing or listening to the world. At 70 it’s a much richer storage area, the matrix inside is more textured, and has more contours to it. 

So, observations made by a 20-year-old are compared against a data set that is incomplete. Observations made by a 60-year-old are compared against a much richer data set. And the observations have more resonance, they’re richer."

Adding to Bob Hoffman's observation last week that 'People over 50 aren't creative enough to write a f***ing banner ad, but they are creative enough to dominate in Nobels, Pulitzers, Oscars, and Emmys.'

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