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.

Once made equal to man，woman becomes his superior.

Mental processes are biological tools for survival.

做半导体要有十年磨一剑的耐心，也要有只争朝夕的紧迫感。

科学是一个永无止境的旅程，总有更多的东西需要学习和发现。

内地某副市长来华为考察参观，在欢迎晚宴上，副市长问任正非：“为了促进企业的发展，政府究竟应该干些什么？”，任正非如此答到。