人生太多的成败，而我太多的时间是在成败之间计较，消耗自己不太多的精力和有限的生命。

对失职的下属、说坏话的朋友、不忠的伴侣，曾按这本书按捺过怨气恶言；离苦得乐之外，也有因苦尽尔找到永乐之道，因舍而得。

阿来

建筑是一种创造，是对美的创造。

安藤忠雄

因果是宇宙的法则，种什么因，得什么果。

庄圆法师

The novel is a protest against the irreversibility of time.

小说是对时间不可逆性的抗议。

马里奥·巴尔加斯·略萨

防患于未然。

谚语

天下的人中，我只想被他一个人爱着，我也只爱他一个人。

金庸

很简单：全球化变成了本土化，尽管智识的、经济的以及电子的骨干设施都取得了飞速增长，但无所不在的数字化并没有带来世界大同。

尼古拉·尼葛洛庞帝

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.

追随自己内心的热情 16年前，我萌生了创办亚马逊的想法。彼时我面对的现实是互联网使用量以每年2300%的速度增长，我从未看到或听说过任何增长如此快速的东西。创建涵盖几百万种书籍的网上书店的想法令我兴奋异常，因为这个东西在物理世界里根本无法存在。那时我刚刚30岁，结婚才一年。我告诉妻子MacKenzie想辞去工作，然后去做这件疯狂的事情，很可能会失败，因为大部分创业公司都是如此，而且我不确定那之后会发生什么。MacKenzie告诉我，我应该放手一搏。在我还是一个男孩儿的时候，我是车库发明家。我曾用水泥填充的轮胎、雨伞和锡箔以及报警器制作了一个自动关门器。我一直想做一个发明家，MacKenzie支持我追随内心的热情。