The essential vocation of interpretive anthropology is not to answer our deepest questions, but to make available to us answers that others, guarding other sheep in other valleys, have given, and thus to include them in the consultable record of what man has said.
解释人类学的根本使命不是回答我们最深刻的问题，而是让我们能够接触到其他人在其他山谷中守护其他羊群时给出的答案，从而将这些答案纳入人类言论的可供查阅的记录中。
1997年：贝索斯致股东信《吸引符合你价值观的股东》
The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as in poetry.
Mathematics is not just about numbers, equations, computations, or algorithms: it is about understanding.
理解一个句子意味着理解一种语言。
历史不过是一连串的意外。它只能让我们准备好再次被意外。
