Distance Vector and Link State Difference?

I go through Quora when I'm trying to waste some time. One day i stumbled across this Interesting Question on it however. 

This Specimen was asking what the Difference between is between link state routing and distance vector routing.

Saw few answers there which are really in-dept and feels pretty overwhelming to read if you are just
getting into networking. However, i had a simple and brief answer for it.

Link to if you want to read rest of the Answers.