天地虽大，不过一隅；宇宙虽广，不过一粟。 - 每日文摘

特别是对于年轻人，这种混淆多半是要归咎于他们所在人为环境的诱导。中学时代，其他孩子们对你的看法好像就是重中之重。但是当你问起成年人他们在少年所犯错误，他们差不多都会认为，那就是把其他孩子对自己的看法看得过分重要了。

保罗·格雷厄姆

良好的教养在于隐藏我们对自己较佳的评价，以及隐藏我们对他人较差的评价。

马克·吐温

We are all prisoners of our own minds.

我们都是自己思想的囚徒。

拉斯洛·克拉斯纳霍卡伊

We don't inherit leather from our ancestors—we borrow it from our children.

我们不是从祖先那里继承皮革，而是从子孙那里借来的。

艾玛·约翰逊

土地松软的国家，养育生性软弱的人民。

希罗多德

企业家要有战略眼光，不能只看眼前利益。

王传福

科学一直告诉人们世界完全不是我们以为的那样，但是又不肯对我们说哪怕一句“其实不用害怕的”。

笛安

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.

追随自己内心的热情 16年前，我萌生了创办亚马逊的想法。彼时我面对的现实是互联网使用量以每年2300%的速度增长，我从未看到或听说过任何增长如此快速的东西。创建涵盖几百万种书籍的网上书店的想法令我兴奋异常，因为这个东西在物理世界里根本无法存在。那时我刚刚30岁，结婚才一年。我告诉妻子MacKenzie想辞去工作，然后去做这件疯狂的事情，很可能会失败，因为大部分创业公司都是如此，而且我不确定那之后会发生什么。MacKenzie告诉我，我应该放手一搏。在我还是一个男孩儿的时候，我是车库发明家。我曾用水泥填充的轮胎、雨伞和锡箔以及报警器制作了一个自动关门器。我一直想做一个发明家，MacKenzie支持我追随内心的热情。