Advantages: Respect and authority that comes with age.
Disadvantages: Physically weak, prone to waffling, arrogant, forgetful.
Quotes
Have you ever thought what it's like to be wanderers in the Fourth Dimension? Have you? To be exiles? Susan and I are cut off from our own planet - without friends or protection. But one day we shall get back. Yes, one day….
I tolerate this century but I don't enjoy it.
That is the dematerializing control. And that, over yonder, is the horizontal hold. Up there is the scanner, those are the doors, that is a chair with a panda on it. Sheer poetry, dear boy. Now please stop bothering me.