"Acting is not about being someone different. It's finding the similarity in what is apparently different, then finding myself in there."

唯一使生活成为可能的是永久的、无法忍受的不确定性；不知道接下来会发生什么。

强大的公司建立在共同价值观和相互尊重的基础上。

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.

计算的力量不仅在于解决问题，还在于其解决问题的优雅和效率。

"The choices we make define who we are, not the circumstances we face."

追求完美的想法，是一个好计划的最大敌人。