人生是一次选择的连续。

The best ideas often come from unexpected places.

译文：处理事情应该宽大平和，而不能有松散懈怠的毛病；处世贵在严格，而不能过于激烈操切。赏析：做事如果松散懈怠，就会功败垂成。处世遵守规定是好事，但操之过急也会适得其反。

Acting is a way of living out one's insanity.

劳动力市场比传统模型假设的更具适应性。

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.