Young lovers seek perfection. Old lovers sew shreds together and see beauty in the multiplicity of patches. - Keith Ferrazzi

Jonah Berger, who conducted an exhaustive study of “most e-mailed” links on the New York Times website and wrote a book about the results, Contagious:

There’s a scarcity of the authentic in our culture. “So many people are liars:

3. Don’t come to the party empty-handed. Who are the stars of today’s digital world? Those writers, bloggers, and gurus who do the best job of providing information, creative content, links, or even just empathy to a community of like-minded individuals. Many of them do it all for free, and their reward is a devout following of people who, in return, offer as much as they receive. It’s a loop. In connecting, online and off, you’re only as good as what you give away.