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.
我相信音乐有治愈和连接人心的力量。
The present state of the system of nature is evidently a consequence of what it was in the preceding moment, and if we conceive of an intelligence which at a given instant comprehends all the relations of the entities of this universe, it could state the respective positions, motions, and general effects of all these entities at any time in the past or future.
一家公司的真正价值取决于它对人类和地球的影响，而不仅仅是利润。
多样性不仅仅是一个可有可无的东西，对于任何想在当今世界蓬勃发展的组织来说，它都是必不可少的。
思索的背信弃义在于它的幽默独处——”如果有什么事你不能对我诉说，“心上人说。”有什么事情你需要独立思考，那么你还把我放在心上吗?“
你是你所遵循规则的受害者。