信息是最重要的商业资产。掌握得越多，拥有的视角就越多，在竞争对手面前就越有可能发现常规模式和异常现象。所以要始终对进入企业的新鲜事物保持开放的态度，无论是新的人、新的经验，还是新的知识。

To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.

"The best shots are often the ones you didn't plan."

Greatness comes from believing in yourself and never giving up.

I got the idea to start Amazon 16 years ago. I came across the fact that Web usage was growing at 2，300 percent per year. I'd never seen or heard of anything that grew that fast， and the idea of building an online bookstore with millions of titles -- something that simply couldn't exist in the physical world -- was very exciting to me. I had just turned 30 years old， and I'd been married for a year. I told my wife MacKenzie that I wanted to quit my job and go do this crazy thing that probably wouldn't work since most startups don't， and I wasn't sure what would happen after that. MacKenzie (also a Princeton grad and sitting here in the second row) told me I should go for it. As a young boy， I'd been a garage inventor. I'd invented an automatic gate closer out of cement-filled tires， a solar cooker that didn't work very well out of an umbrella and tinfoil， baking-pan alarms to entrap my siblings. I'd always wanted to be an inventor， and she wanted me to follow my passion.

The goal of software engineering is to control complexity, not to create it.