The capitalist achievement does not typically consist in providing more silk stockings for queens but in bringing them within the reach of factory girls in return for steadily decreasing amounts of effort.

The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others.

I think about the limits of language.

你无法仅靠站着凝视水面就能穿越海洋。

科学的进步就像古老的沙漠小径，散落着被抛弃的理论的苍白骨架，这些理论曾经看似拥有永恒的生命。

2015年：贝索斯致股东信《全世界对失败最宽容的公司》

每个角色都应该想要点什么，哪怕只是一杯水。