[havaloc]

"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!

[dredmorbius]

Apparently Luke Kaiser is the originator of that form, though there are antecedents:

<https://quoteinvestigator.com/2025/06/04/age-treachery/>

[expedition32]

The danger is turning into a gerontocracy.

[inglor_cz]

Given the plummeting birth rates, that may be inevitable.