The only way to predict the future is to create it.

"The true challenge of writing is not in finding the right words, but in uncovering the truth they must carry."

我选择一周的懒汉，而不是一个月的勤奋者。

翻译：强调知识对于改变事物形态的重要性。

A writer's life is a highly vulnerable, almost naked activity. We don't have to weep about that. The writer makes his choice and is stuck with it. But it is true to say that you are open to all the winds, some of them icy indeed. You are out on your own, out on a limb. You find no shelter, no protection — unless you lie — in which case of course you have constructed your own protection and, it could be argued, become a politician.

2001：贝索斯致股东信《我们始终坚持现金流为王》

Little bitty stinging rain, and big old fat rain, rain that flew in side every ways.