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.

我不是政客，我是行为艺术家。

The final reward of the dead is to live on in the memory of the living.

真正的成功是通过你对他人产生的积极影响来衡量的。

The purpose of abstraction is not to be vague, but to create a new semantic level in which one can be absolutely precise.

"Every role I take is a piece of me, and every character I play leaves a mark on my soul."

Innovation is not just about creating new products, but about rethinking how we use materials to reduce waste.

In a world of constant change, adaptability is the key to survival and growth.