我们的股东都知道,我们做出了每年不断为客户提供低价商品的决策,而我们的效率和规模使这件事切实可行。这是个不能通过数学方式来完成重要决策的例子。实际上,我们降低价格的时候,已经违背了我们的数学模型,这个模型显示聪明的做法是上调价格。我们掌握了大量与价格弹性相关的数据。
2005年:贝索斯致股东信《尽管是数字在发挥作用,但决策因素还是“判断”》
Every technological breakthrough comes from the exploration and persistence of the unknown.
Perhaps if we wrote programs from childhood on, as adults we'd be able to read them.
Life is about creating yourself.
过去从未死去。它甚至不是过去。
书籍是灵魂的镜子,反映我们最深的恐惧和欲望。
Everyone has the brainpower to follow the stock market. If you made it through fifth-grade math, you can do it.
现代生物学运动的最终目标实际上是用物理和化学来解释所有生物学。