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Absolutely love this quote from the article: "Money is like gas in the car – you need to pay attention or you’ll end up on the side of the road – but a well-liv

Absolutely love this quote from the article: "Money is like gas in the car – you need to pay attention or you’ll end up on the side of the road – but a well-lived life is not a tour of gas stations!" - Tim O'Reilly

javert 13y ago
It would be better to just be explicit. Money can be an incredibly useful thing to have, but getting happiness is a lot more complicated than just getting a lot of money.
- lsc 13y ago
  A platitude is only interesting if the language used to convey it has some poetry to it. Otherwise it's just a platitude.
  - ars_technician 13y ago
    It's still just a platitude. Poetry is just a pointless distraction. You can put lipstick on a pig...
    - vectorpush 13y ago
      Quintessential HN.
    - lsc 13y ago
      >It's still just a platitude. Poetry is just a pointless distraction. and a painting is just some oil with some impurities on a cotton backing. The fact that words sometimes convey practical meaning does not preclude them from also being art.
    - orbitur 13y ago
      So what's life like without the ability to acknowledge art?
    - smtddr 13y ago
      >>Poetry is just a pointless distraction. I need to start a website called "The cold-hearted comments of HN".
    - gbog 13y ago
      Poetry, art is our only umbrella in the shitstorm that we call life, how can you say it is a pointless distraction?
    - 1631- 13y ago
      > It's still just a platitude. Poetry is just a pointless distraction. > You can put lipstick on a pig... Was this comment the spoken word in disguise? It sounded a little poetic to me.
  - javert 13y ago
    What I said isn't a platitude. It is straight to the point.
    - lsc 13y ago
      "a remark or statement, esp. one with a moral content, that has been used too often to be interesting or thoughtful." Your statement /was/ to the point. that doesn't make it not a platitude.
      - javert 13y ago
        A platitude would be, "Money doesn't buy happiness," or the equivalent. I specifically did not say that. I don't want to talk about this any further. We have misunderstood one another to the point that this isn't productive.
        lsc 13y ago
        >I don't want to talk about this any further. We have misunderstood one another to the point that this isn't productive. Oh man. A hacker news comment 'This isn't productive' Now you have me laughing. Seriously, I need to block news.ycombinator.com at my router again. I didn't even get one server up and ready today (though I dealt with several hard drives, a co-lo emergency and some social/business bullshit... I wasn't completely unproductive, but HN... did not help with that.)

javert 13y ago

It would be better to just be explicit. Money can be an incredibly useful thing to have, but getting happiness is a lot more complicated than just getting a lot of money.

lsc 13y ago
A platitude is only interesting if the language used to convey it has some poetry to it. Otherwise it's just a platitude.
- ars_technician 13y ago
  It's still just a platitude. Poetry is just a pointless distraction. You can put lipstick on a pig...
  - vectorpush 13y ago
    Quintessential HN.
  - lsc 13y ago
    >It's still just a platitude. Poetry is just a pointless distraction. and a painting is just some oil with some impurities on a cotton backing. The fact that words sometimes convey practical meaning does not preclude them from also being art.
  - orbitur 13y ago
    So what's life like without the ability to acknowledge art?
  - smtddr 13y ago
    >>Poetry is just a pointless distraction. I need to start a website called "The cold-hearted comments of HN".
  - gbog 13y ago
    Poetry, art is our only umbrella in the shitstorm that we call life, how can you say it is a pointless distraction?
  - 1631- 13y ago
    > It's still just a platitude. Poetry is just a pointless distraction. > You can put lipstick on a pig... Was this comment the spoken word in disguise? It sounded a little poetic to me.
- javert 13y ago
  What I said isn't a platitude. It is straight to the point.
  - lsc 13y ago
    "a remark or statement, esp. one with a moral content, that has been used too often to be interesting or thoughtful." Your statement /was/ to the point. that doesn't make it not a platitude.
    - javert 13y ago
      A platitude would be, "Money doesn't buy happiness," or the equivalent. I specifically did not say that. I don't want to talk about this any further. We have misunderstood one another to the point that this isn't productive.
      - lsc 13y ago
        >I don't want to talk about this any further. We have misunderstood one another to the point that this isn't productive. Oh man. A hacker news comment 'This isn't productive' Now you have me laughing. Seriously, I need to block news.ycombinator.com at my router again. I didn't even get one server up and ready today (though I dealt with several hard drives, a co-lo emergency and some social/business bullshit... I wasn't completely unproductive, but HN... did not help with that.)