average age at receipt of phd=33
I’m going to be right on track…
One thing is clear from the data: This is not a field that produces Wunderkinder, bright young things who make their mark at a precocious age. In fact, some of our sample members have kept their best wine until last. Creativity in academic information science is clearly not the preserve of callow youth, and no one pattern of productivity characterizes the innovators in our sample. (p. 1954)
– Cronin, Blaise and Lokman I. Meho. 2007. Timelines of creativity: a study of intellectual innovators in information science . Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 58 (13): 1948-59.
June 24, 2008 | Filed Under quotes | Leave a Comment
something for this information addict to remember.
…Your brain does not obey Moore’s Law. It’s aided by it, for sure. But the truth is. there’s only so much you can pack in there… (from Steve Rubel’s Micro Persuasion)
Despite my fondest wishes, I have finite attention, limits on how much can be stored in short-term memory, and requirements for getting stuff into long term memory.
March 12, 2007 | Filed Under quotes | Leave a Comment
quote.
Quote from Bascha’s interview with Cory Doctorow:
And when you look at what the protracted term of copyright coupled with the impossibility of legally digitizing large courses of work is giving us, it is a slow-motion burning of the library.