Nishant’s Reviews > The Guiding Light: A Selection of Quotations From My Favourite Books > Status Update

If the amount of information in science doubles every nine months and decays at 30 per cent a year, how long does one's expertise last? Without constantly updating your knowledge base you could end up with as little as 15 per cent of your technical knowledge relevant within just five years. However, when you can google just about anything, knowledge acquisition becomes more important than knowledge retention. —Liz W.

"It is rare to be born as a human being
It is still more rare to be born without any deformity Even if you are born without any deformity It is rare to acquire knowledge and education Even if one could acquire knowledge and education It is still rare to offer service to mankind And contemplate on higher self. If one leads such a selfless divine life The gates of heaven open to greet such an evolved soul. —Avvaiyar"

"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore that all progress depends on the unreasonable man. —Man and Superman, George Bernard Shaw"