I’m 28. I think I’m way behind the crowd. It’s people like this. Earl Vickers: Things Other People Accomplished When They Were Your Age. At my age (29), “American inventor Alexander Graham Bell transmitted the first complete sentence by telephone.” In the words of Tom Lehrer, “It’s people like this that make you realize how little you’ve accomplished. It is a sobering thought, for instance, that when Mozart was my age, he had been dead for two years.” [diveintomark]