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.

I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.

我做事情不是为了钱，而是因为我热爱它们。

"The photograph is just the starting point. The painting is something else entirely."

量子计算的未来取决于我们克服噪声和退相干挑战的能力。

Success is not about how much money you make, it’s about the difference you make in people’s lives.

That thing that made you weird as a kid could make you great as an adult — if you don’t lose it.

"The line between good and evil is permeable and anyone can cross it when pushed by circumstances."

我因展望未来而感受到的喜悦——成为注定从世界上消除最大灾难之一的工具，与享受独立、家庭和平与幸福的殷切希望交织在一起，常常占据了我的整个心灵。