Growing up most people were exposed to many sayings and other words of wisdom. The only problem is that most of these sayings haven’t been updated or modernised since the times when little boys were employed as chimney sweeps. Take for example when someone says, “you sound like a broken record”, how many people under the age of 20 even know what a record is? Let alone understand what a broken one is supposed to sound like.

Then you have all the old timers complaining about the modern text-speak of the younger generation and how none of it makes any sense to them. Or how the youth of today are living lives which are devoid of the richness they had growing up. I can only imagine they’re referring to polio, the plague and working in coal mines.

Anyway, to settle this age-long argument and help build bridges between the older generation and the youth, I’ve taken it upon myself to modernise some of the old sayings to be more compatible with the modern language. The old can be comforted by the fact the youth are having good morals instilled and younger people can understand what is being said.

Feel free to add your own:

Sticks and stones may break my bones but texts will never hurt me.

Spare the websense, spoil the employee.

That which does not pwn you, makes you stronger

The best apps come in small packages

Don’t judge a file by it’s format

A 1mp camera is greater than the sharpest memory

The keyboard is mightier than the gun

Born with an iPod in his hand

Better the ebayer you know

An old laptop will never run new software

All downloads come to those who wait

All searches lead to google

A youtube clip is worth a thousand pictures

A man is known by the facebook friends he keeps

A saas in need is a saas indeed

A bad developer always blames the programming language

You bookmark me and I’ll bookmark you

You can’t make a website without spending 12 months on its design.

You can’t poke two people with one click

Where there’s a port, there’s a way.

What email goes around, comes around

Think before you comment

The concurrent session which broke the website

There’s no such thing as free membership

500mb’s and half a gig the other

Same website, different theme.