我想说的是，我们不该放弃，我们对成功的想象，但必须确定那些都是我们自己想要的，我们应该专注于我们自己的目标，确定这目标是我们真正想要的，确定这个梦想蓝图出自自己笔下。因为得不到自己想要的已经够糟糕了，更糟糕的是，在人生旅程的终点，发觉你所追求的从来就不是你真正想要的。
So what I want to argue for is not that we should give up on our ideas of success, but we should make sure that they are our own. We should focus in on our ideas, and make sure that we own them; that we are truly the authors of our own ambitions. Because it's bad enough not getting what you want, but it's even worse to have an idea of what it is you want, and find out, at the end of the journey, that it isn't, in fact, what you wanted all along.
殖民地是一个新人类计划将被测试的地方，在那里一个无国界、无种族、无国家、无阶级、无性别和无宗教世界的梦想将被实现。
The best stories are those that leave room for the reader.
2012年：贝索斯致股东信《长远思考才能做到不可能的事情》
问题的真实本质往往被其表面现象所掩盖。