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.
教育不仅仅是建造学校，而是确保孩子们真正学到知识。
绘画是在纸上思考。
The most real thing that human beings can touch is the silence in loneliness.
译文：为人处世懂得退让就是高明之举，待人接物学会宽容就是福气。赏析：忍一时风平浪静，退一步海阔天空。与人相处，不必事事都要争个高低，更不必小肚鸡肠。
Without science, aquaculture stagnates; without ethics, it collapses.
我们谷物生产成功的真正标准不仅在于产量，还在于我们如何平衡生产力与环境管理。
The strength of a team lies in its diversity of thought and unity of purpose.