做出伟大工作的唯一方法就是热爱你所做的事。

自命不凡的学者总会把事物变得臃肿、复杂和有破坏性，而在相反的方向上努力是需要不凡的天赋和极大的勇气的。

A building should appear to grow easily from its site.

建筑应该看起来像是从它的场地中自然生长出来的。

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。

杰夫·贝索斯

The more determinedly I exist, as myself, within the conditions of the time, the more clearly I shall hear the language of the past, the nearer I shall feel the breath of universal history.

我越是坚定地作为自己存在于时代的条件中，我就越清晰地听到过去的语言，越感受到普遍历史的呼吸。

卡尔·雅斯贝尔斯

生命中唯一不变的是变化。

The only constant in life is change.

哈维尔·马里亚斯

是的，我们自以为与时俱进，其实在不断后退，一直退到我们出发的地方。

北岛

不，死亡不会把我们分开，它会让那些灵魂已经交融在一起的身体进一步融进尘世的风里。原本转身朝向彼此的女人和男人变成了白天和夜晚、大地和天空，甚至是世界上的物质——活着的时候我们可以相互遗忘，彼此分开，远离，生命是健忘的——但是对于那些希望一起死去的人来说，死亡是一种没有终点的绝对记忆。

加缪

Writing down one thing you are grateful for each day is the cheapest possible therapy ever.