Nilay Patel, normally the interviewer for The Verge’s Decoder podcast, flips the script by being interviewed in a 2024 episode in which he says something that has lived in my head rent-free ever since:

I also think young people reflexively, and to their great credit, just reject everything their parents did. They just throw it out the window, and then they do it again 10 years later and pretend they invented it, which is great and I think a very important cycle of creativity.