We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.

基础设施决定论原则认为，基础设施的结构决定了上层建筑的结构。

我写作是为了记住，为了不忘记。

The wild is a place of growth. To survive, you have to embrace it.

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.

The only way to have a good day is to start it with a positive attitude.

Don't let fear stop you from pursuing your dreams.

艺术的最高目标是在人与环境之间创造和谐。