The essence of cryptography is to allow communication in the presence of adversaries.

我相信，只要你付出努力，结果自然会来。

创作是对必然的反抗。

野蛮人首先是相信野蛮的人。

"Life on a lifeboat isn't much of a life. It is like an end game in chess, a game with few pieces. The elements couldn't be more simple, nor the stakes higher."

The best edits are the ones you don't notice.

2001：贝索斯致股东信《我们始终坚持现金流为王》

And the thing about a successful life is that a lot of the time, our ideas of what it would mean to live successfully are not our own. They're sucked in from other people; chiefly, if you're a man, your father, and if you're a woman, your mother. Psychoanalysis has been drumming home this message for about 80 years. No one's quite listening hard enough, but I very much believe it's true.

Comparing ourselves to others is a surefire way to feel worse about our own lives.