Scientific knowledge is an enabling power to do either good or bad — but it does not carry instructions on how to use it.
Science is what we do to keep us from lying to ourselves
Maybe that is why young people make success. They don't know enough.
When you get as old as I am, you start to realize that you've told most of the good stuff you know to other people anyway.
It is simple, therefore it is beautiful
If you keep proving stuff that others have done, getting confidence, increasing the complexities of your solutions - for the fun of it - then one day you'll turn around and discover that nobody actually did that one! And that's the way to become a computer scientist.