The world has to learn that the actual pleasure derived from material things is of rather low quality on the whole and less even in quantity than it looks to those who have not tried it.

  • -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. 奥利弗·温德尔·霍姆斯,老。

世界必须认识到,从物质事物中获得的实际快乐,从整体上看质量相当低,甚至在数量上比那些没有尝试过的人所看到的还要少。

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Most of what we take as being important is not material, whether it's music or feelings or love. They're things we can't really see or touch. They're not material, but they're vitally important to us.

我们认为重要的东西大多不是物质,无论是音乐、情感还是爱情。它们是我们看不见摸不着的东西。它们不是物质,但它们对我们至关重要。

Perhaps it is this specter that most haunts working men and women: the planned obsolescence of people that is of a piece with the planned obsolescence of the things they make. Or sell.

也许正是这种幽灵最常萦绕在工作的男男女女身上:人们的计划报废与他们生产的产品的计划报废是一体的。或出售。