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.

Every exhibition should be a question, not an answer.

"We are all time travelers, moving forward at the speed of life, but always looking back."

The precepts of the law are these: to live honestly, to injure no one, and to give each his due.

The best cloud strategy is not to have a cloud strategy, but to have a business strategy that leverages cloud.

在文学中，我们找到了自己存在的真相。

我们写的每一个字都是朝着理解自己和周围世界迈出的一步。