The only obsession everyone wants: ‘love.’ People think that in falling in love they make themselves whole? The Platonic union of souls? I think otherwise. I think you’re whole before you begin. And the love fractures you. You’re whole, and then you’re cracked open.

The past is not just the past, but a prism through which the subject filters his own changing self-image.

理解感知的神经基础是理解我们如何体验世界的关键。

2016年：贝索斯致股东信《每天都要像创业的第一天那样》

2005年：贝索斯致股东信《尽管是数字在发挥作用，但决策因素还是“判断”》

我从十五岁开始致力于学习，三十岁便能自立于社会了，四十岁对各种事理不再迷惑不解，五十岁懂得了自然界的规律，六十岁对听到的事情能领会贯通，并能辨别是非真伪，七十岁时做事能随心所欲，但又不会超出礼法的规范。