We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil.

The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.

最痛苦的并非痛苦本身，而是孤独地承受痛苦。

1997年：贝索斯致股东信《吸引符合你价值观的股东》

A miner's safety should never be measured in cost-benefit analyses.

We are all, in the end, what we remember.

I think therefore I am has been discarded; we should say, I feel therefore I am.