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.

译文：读书不管天资高低，只要能不耻下问，勤学苦练，对事事都思考为什么，自然就会有通晓人生道理的那一天。立身处世，不要妄自菲薄，不要嫌弃家世的贫贱，只要能忠厚老成，举止行为不违背道义准则，不做苟且之事，就一定成为乡里人人敬仰的人。赏析：人的天资愚钝不可怕，只要肯下苦功夫，用心领悟，那么终将有一天会明白书中的真理。出身寒微不是耻辱，能屈能伸方为大丈夫。人生在世，要时刻谨记古人流传下来的礼义廉耻，做一个受人敬重的人。

石油开采的创新不是可选项，而是满足世界能源需求的必要条件。

"La memoria es frágil, pero la literatura puede salvarla del olvido."

他是一个一直太骄傲而不愿寻求帮助的人，现在他太骄傲而不愿接受帮助。