人皆知以食愈饥，念莫知以学愈愚。 - 每日文摘

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。

杰夫·贝索斯

The act of writing is an act of resistance.

写作的行为是一种抵抗的行为。

韩江

我很容易被景色震撼啊，大草原会震撼我，大海会震撼我，花海会震撼我，高山会震撼我，落日会震撼我。

琼瑶

我们不是从祖先那里继承了土地；我们是从子孙那里借来的。

We don't inherit the land from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children.

詹姆斯·卡勒里

我们爱尔兰人太诗意以至不能做诗人，我们的国家里充满才华横溢的失败者，可我们是自希腊人以来最伟大的说空话之人。

We Irish are too poetical to be poets; we are a nation of brilliant failures, but we are the greatest talkers since the Greeks.

奥斯卡·王尔德

生活是一系列的时刻，每一个都是一个等待被讲述的故事。

Life is a series of moments, each one a story waiting to be told.

保罗·哈丁

说真话不应当是艰难的事情。我所谓真话不是指真理，也不是指正确的话。自己想什麽就讲什麽；自己怎麽想就怎麽说这就是说真话。

巴金

砍柴砍小头，问路问老头。

谚语

每个艺术家的目标都是用人为的手段来捕捉运动（即生命），并将其固定，以便一百年后，当一个陌生人看着它时，它又动了起来，因为它就是生命。

The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.