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.

The holographic principle suggests that the information content of a region of space can be thought of as encoded on the boundary of that region, much like a hologram.

没有关系的，我已经准备好让你离开。我希望你能够明白，因此我们在接下来的时光里尽情享受每一秒。无论好坏，这都是我们赋予对方的。

Innovation is not just about new ideas, but about executing them with precision and passion.

译文：不要和他人争长短与得失，只求自己能增长知识和才干。赏析：我们在与人交往之中，少谈论别人的是非，少和别人争长短。不管是赢了还是输了，有什么用呢。与其和别人争论毫无关系的事情，不如静下心来多读书学习，多反思自己的言行，或许能收获很多知识。

好的企业和坏的企业的区别在于，好的企业不断地产生简单的决策，而坏的企业不断地产生痛苦的决策。