2006年：贝索斯致股东信《选择新业务时，亚马逊的经验》

Survival = Anger × Imagination.

Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with blood from people killing, stealing, shouting and doing the things historians usually record, while on the banks, unnoticed, people build homes, make love, raise children, sing songs, write poetry and even whittle statues. The story of civilization is the story of what happened on the banks.

你并不总能得到你想要的，但有时，你会得到你需要的。

I'm not a role model, I'm just a kid who's trying to figure it out.

爱是不够的，它需要被照料，像火一样。

The arithmetic of modular forms is a key to understanding the deeper structures of number theory.