In matters of the heart, one moment of patience can save you years of regret. - Kevin Kelly

Getting cheated occasionally is the small price for trusting the best of everyone, because when you trust the best in others, they generally treat you best.

The web holds about a trillion pages. The human brain holds about a hundred billion neurons. Each biological neuron sprouts synaptic links to thousands of other neurons, while each web page on average links to 60 other pages. That adds up to a trillion “synapses” between the static pages on the web. The human brain has about 100 times that number of links — but brains are not doubling in size every few years. The global machine is.

Collecting things benefits you only if you display your collection prominently and share it in joy with others. The opposite of this is hoarding.