活在当下，不是一种能力，而是一种选择。

为的是在将来的某个清晨，那些大轮船上的游客醒来时会闻到海上飘来的沁人心脾的花香，船长会穿着礼服，带着他的罗盘和北极星徽章，胸前挂着一排在战争中获得的勋章，从后甲板走下来，指着加勒比海海平面上种满玫瑰的海岬，用十四种语言说，请往那里看，那里如今风声温柔，微风在人们床下驻足，就在那边，在那阳光炽烈、向日葵不知道该往哪边转的地方，是的，就在那里，那是埃斯特班的村子。

加西亚·马尔克斯

在这场你与世界的战争中，我支持这个世界。

弗兰兹·卡夫卡

万念俱灰也是一种超脱。

木心

成功是我唯一的选择，失败不是。

"Success is my only motherfucking option, failure's not."

李尔·韦恩

时间不理我。因而，我只能倒退着走才能规避悲伤，把今日视作你我交谊的伊始，将已发生、成为过往的那一大段“往事“当做他日，如此逆溯，我们的他日总会回到思想史课堂上，一个铿锵如金属交击的女声突然窜出，舞剑似的演绎哲学议题，而另一个女子兀自低头微笑，心底云腾腾升起渴慕、激赏的烟雾。那是初夏早晨，蝉嘶嘹高。

简媜

月儿栽西，银光如练，但已瘦削，宛如半裁信纸。

夏目漱石

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.

追随自己内心的热情 16年前，我萌生了创办亚马逊的想法。彼时我面对的现实是互联网使用量以每年2300%的速度增长，我从未看到或听说过任何增长如此快速的东西。创建涵盖几百万种书籍的网上书店的想法令我兴奋异常，因为这个东西在物理世界里根本无法存在。那时我刚刚30岁，结婚才一年。我告诉妻子MacKenzie想辞去工作，然后去做这件疯狂的事情，很可能会失败，因为大部分创业公司都是如此，而且我不确定那之后会发生什么。MacKenzie告诉我，我应该放手一搏。在我还是一个男孩儿的时候，我是车库发明家。我曾用水泥填充的轮胎、雨伞和锡箔以及报警器制作了一个自动关门器。我一直想做一个发明家，MacKenzie支持我追随内心的热情。