I am not able to document an old problem;

To proclaim that a problem is old, is usually to admit it is (in the mathematical sense,) "well investigated," and intractable. Old problems do not admit to easy solutions, and new solutions are suspect equally with cliches. A good rule of thumb is that

"All cliches are true." - Sam Waterston.

Despite this, to be cliche is also to be trite. Pithy cliches are especially trite.

What is this new cliche that I cannot document? ...and am I proud of my new found ignorance?

Alexander G. Bell who won out (in the Darwinian sense,) for credit for invention of the telephone [he did not know the Vigenere Square Encryption system - good for short (aka handwritten) messages since the 1500's (Academically the 16th Century arrived early, as usual.)] Since he didn't KNOW anything, his invention could not be stolen, and like all good parasites, he... but I digress.

Alexander Graham Bell CANNOT be authoritatively DOCUMENTED to have competed in history for profound utterances with the wording of the first telegraph by saying, "Come here Watson, I WANT you." Thanks Alex... Cu l8r.