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by gdubs 3653 days ago
The late Carl Sagan had a great sequence in the original Cosmos where he made a similar point about how many books one could read in a lifetime:

  If I finish a book a week, I will read only a few thousand
  books in my lifetime, about a tenth of a percent of the 
  contents of the greatest libraries of our time. The trick 
  is to know which books to read.