The best programs are written so that computing machines can perform them quickly and so that human beings can understand them clearly. A programmer is ideally an essayist who works with traditional aesthetic and literary forms as well as mathematical concepts, to communicate the way that an algorithm works and to convince a reader that the results will be correct.

Greatness is not this wonderful, esoteric, elusive, god-like feature that only the special among us will ever taste. It’s something that truly exists in all of us.

Always ask: How can we do better? Then act on the answer.

在快速变化的市场中，唯一不变的就是变化本身，我们必须学会适应。

2016年：贝索斯致股东信《每天都要像创业的第一天那样》

我不想成为名人。我想成为记忆。