"In the end, we are all just stories. What matters is how well we tell them."

Art is not about beauty. It’s about truth.

With a library you are free, not confined by temporary political climates. It is the most democratic of institutions because no one - but no one at all - can tell you what to read and when and how.

2015年：贝索斯致股东信《全世界对失败最宽容的公司》

We are survival machines—robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes.

In the future, people will no longer be alienated by their labor, but by their leisure.

Keep all your things visible in a hotel room， not in drawers， and all gathered into one spot. That way you’ll never leave anything behind. If you need to have something like a charger off to the side， place a couple of other large items next to it， because you are less likely to leave 3 items behind than just one.

The elements of consciousness are to be discovered by careful experimentation.