Jeffrey Kluger Paul McCartney had a baby when he was 61; Rod Stewart was 66; Rupert Murdoch was a stunning 72. Not only does that mean they’ll have less stamina than the average dad, that means they’ll, well, check out a lot sooner too. – Jeffrey Kluger Average Quotes Baby Quotes Check Quotes Dad Quotes Lot Quotes Mccartney Quotes Murdoch Quotes Paul Quotes Rod Quotes Rupert Quotes Sooner Quotes Stamina Quotes Stewart Quotes Stunning Quotes Older fatherhood isn’t all bad: testosterone rates drop about 1% per year as men age, making them less reactive and more patient, and a professionally established middle-aged man is likely to have more time and money to devote to his kids than a twenty-something who’s just getting started. Every batch of sperm represents an opportunity for genetic typos – called de novo mutations – to be passed on. A 20-year-old man and woman will each pass on about 20 de novo mutations to a baby they conceive. By the time the couple is 40, a woman’s total has remained at 20, while a man’s has jumped to 65 – and it keeps climbing from there.
Anita Hill If you think about the way the hearings were structured, the hearings were really about Thomas’ race and my gender. – Anita Hill
Safra A Catz Oracle is obsessed with security. It’s an absolute requirement for all our products. The real security issue is when customers take older products that were not built for the Internet, and kind of rack them and put them on the Internet. – Safra A Catz
Christopher Priest It made absolutely no sense to me why Panther would ever join a super-hero team; he’s not a super-hero, and the record shows he did a whole lot of nothing most of the time. – Christopher Priest
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