I don’t like to be told what I am.

语言不是用来隐藏思想的。

The future city will be a ruin from the beginning.

So given a Time Turner, I would tell my 21-year-old self that personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a check-list of acquisition or achievement. Your qualifications, your CV, are not your life, though you will meet many people of my age and older who confuse the two. Life is difficult, and complicated, and beyond anyone’s total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.

1998年：贝索斯致股东信《保持对客户的恐惧》

打字机要是敲得有感情，并不比你的姐妹或者亲戚弹奏钢琴来的扰人。

I don't think limits.

我热爱竞争。我喜欢挑战自己。

幽默只是对抗宇宙的另一种防御机制。

自由国际秩序是一个神话。

The world is like a chessboard， whereon we may see a living knight， but we cannot see a living chess.