Bits & Pieces: Some Things to Think About: I always felt that there is so much to learn if we only would seek knowledge. When we are born, we begin to learn. Every day we learn something new about our surroundings and all the people that are in our milieu. In our youth, we spend 12 to 20 years in schools to learn. We never stop learning. The trick is to learn the good things and avoid learning the bad things. The computer adage; Garbage in garbage out, is true. The day we stop learning is usually the day we die. My father in law, A. Z. Shmina, once told me, When I meet someone, I think that maybe I can learn something from him. If I find that I can t, and then I think well maybe I can teach him something. That s the spirit of this book."