The only thing that could make us what we are would be a perception of something like us.
能够使我们成为现在的我们的唯一因素将是对类似我们的东西的感知。
事实是，我不是一个很好的人。但我正在努力变得更好。
我们都被自己的记忆所囚禁，而自由的关键在于理解它们。
"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you."
预测未来的最好方式就是创造未来。
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.