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夏天过去，秋天过去，冬天又来了，骆驼队又来了，但是童年却一去不还。冬阳底下学骆驼咀嚼的傻事，我也不会再做了。

Technology can help us fish smarter, not harder.

技术可以帮助我们更聪明地捕捞，而不是更费力。

爱斯特拉冈：瞧这个。(他拎着叶子根部把吃剩的胡萝卜举起，在眼前旋转)奇怪，越吃越没滋味。弗拉基米尔：对我来说正好相反。爱：换句话说？弗：我会慢慢地习惯。爱：(沉思了半晌)这是相反？弗：是修养问题。爱：是性格问题。弗：是没有办法的事。爱：奋斗没有用。弗：天生的脾性。爱：挣扎没有用。弗：本性难移。爱：毫无办法。

塞缪尔·贝克特

地方自治，是在兵事完结之后，把全国一千六百多县都画分开，将地方上的事情让本地方人民自己去治，政府毫不干涉。

——在广州全国青年联合会演说，1923年10月21日

孙中山

人生有一种习惯性，是心理上的一种力，正与物在斜方必倾向下之为物理上的一种力一样。要物不倾向下，依力学原理，要有与它相等的一力去抵抗它才行。要人心改变，也要有一种与这心力强度相等的力去反抗它才行。

毛泽东

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。