>Apparently, I have to wait 17 years before I can bring in any real wisdom to this forum.

bull****

It is my opinion that with youth comes a greater capacity for innovation because you are less shackled by the constraints of living within the bounds of conventional thought for x amount of time. And innovation-driven successes brings wisdom along for the ride, and in my own experiences wisdom earned in this manner tends to come in larger singular doses than when it gleamed in small nuggets harvested along ones path in life.