Close With a Quotation

Select a quotation or paraphrase that does one of the following:

Nick Bilton concludes his analytical blog entry about digital etiquette with a paraphrase of a Margaret Mead quotation. (See Chapter 19 for more on the differences between a paraphrase and a quotation.)

The anthropologist Margaret Mead once said that in traditional societies, the young learn from the old. But in modern societies, the old can also learn from the young. Here’s hoping that politeness never goes out of fashion, but that time-wasting forms of communication do.