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.
译文：感叹白发，观察世间的道路。人们无不追求荣华，看重富贵而轻视贫贱。显赫的宫门，华丽的宫殿。年轻时入仕，幼年时就献上谋略。
最可持续的树是仍然屹立不倒的树。
The truth is not something we find, but something we create.
技术可以帮助我们监测和管理渔业，但真正的变革来自于我们共同的意志。
游戏不仅仅是娱乐，它还是一种文化和艺术的表达。
The art of teaching is not to impart knowledge, but to inspire, awaken, and encourage.
