Our capacity to draw happiness from aesthetic objects or material goods in fact seems critically dependent on our first satisfying a more important range of emotional or psychological needs, among them the need for understanding, for love, expression and respect.
无论是赏心悦目的事物，还是实实在在的东西，我们从中获取幸福的关键似乎取决于这样一个事实，那就是我们必须首先满足自己情感或心理上的一些更为重要的需求，诸如对理解、爱、宣泄和尊重的需求。《旅行的艺术》
When someone says "I want a programming language in which I need only say what I wish done," give him a lollipop.
真相很少是纯粹的，也从不简单。
2007年：贝索斯致股东信《我们改变工具，工具也改变我们》
The best leaders are those who listen, learn, and lead with humility.