When I Was Your Age/Quotes

"What is happening to our young people? They disrespect their elders, they disobey their parents. They ignore the law. They riot in the streets inflamed with wild notions. Their morals are decaying. What is to become of them?"

- Plato

"Do you pine for the nice days of minix-1.1, when men were men and wrote their own device drivers?"

- Linus Torvalds

"Back in the 1970s we didn't have the space shuttle to get all excited about. We had to settle for men walking on the crummy moon."

"In my day, we didn't have hand-held calculators. We had to do addition on our fingers. To subtract, we had to have some fingers amputated."

"In my day, we didn't have water. We had to smash together our own hydrogen and oxygen atoms."

"In my day, we didn't have Strom Thurmond. Oh, wait. Yes, we did..."

"Kids today think the world revolves around them. In my day, the sun revolved around the world, and the world was perched on the back of a giant tortoise."

"Back in my day, 60 Minutes wasn't just a bunch of gray-haired liberal 80-year-old guys. It was a bunch of gray-haired liberal 60-year-old guys."

"In my day, we didn't have virtual reality. If a one-eyed razorback barbarian warrior was chasing you with an ax, you just had to hope you could outrun him."

""That's the problem with kids today, all they think about is school, dating, and martial arts.""

- Ai No Kodomo (a Ranma ½ Fanfic from 1997) by "Mousse Lee", chapter 5

"Back in my day, we didn't have any of these fancy disclaimers. We blamed our employers for our opinions, and they got sued for silly little provocations, and they would fire us, and we would be sleeping out in the cold and hungry, and we liked it that way."