The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

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.

"The stories of the marginalized and the displaced are essential to understanding the full complexity of our world."

创新不仅仅是技术，更是改变人们的生活方式。

我们要去猎熊。我们要抓一只大的。多么美好的一天！我们不怕。

如果你的优先事项超过三个，那么你就没有任何优先事项。

Art is the only place where failure is celebrated.

Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform.

我们的文化不仅仅是我们心中所承载的东西；它是我们存在的本质。

The cycle of poverty begins with the abandonment of hope.