You made your decision at age 35; I was 34 when I accepted my nature, as in my article “Managers: How do You Manage a Cat?”

5. We’ve missed our chance . I am 72 years old. I started writing about general topics in February of this year. I did have 10 technical articles published since 1982, though. Very unusual for a techie.

6. We had a chance… but blew it. I told my trainees that only one test counted — the last one when the program works. I had over 1,000 failures on my first computer program before it worked (they counted).