Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners.

艺术家必须是永恒的见证者。

当观众带来他们自己的解释时，艺术品就完成了。

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.

Sustainability isn't a cost center; it's the ultimate driver of long-term profitability.

We believe that the cars of the future will definitely be electric.

The idea of inflation is that the universe underwent a period of extremely rapid expansion in its earliest moments.

我梦想着有一天，这个国家会站起来，实现其信仰的真正意义。

If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.