Is there any relief from some of thesepressures that I've been outlining? I think there is. I just want to turn to afew of them. Let's take meritocracy. This idea that everybody deserves to getwhere they get to, I think it's a crazy idea, completely crazy. I will support any politician of Left and Right, with any halfway-decent meritocratic idea; I am a meritocrat in that sense. But I think it's insane to believe that we will ever make a society that is genuinely meritocratic; it's an impossible dream.

It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.

Innovation is the key driver for the petrochemical industry to overcome challenges and seize opportunities.

If you're not stubborn, you'll give up on experiments too soon. And if you're not flexible, you'll pound your head against the wall and you won't see a different solution to a problem you're trying to solve.

疯狂与天才之间的界限是由那些害怕两者的人划定的。

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”》

Education is the transmission of civilization.