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.

每一位女性的成功都应该激励另一位女性。我们应该互相支持。

The white race believes—believes with all its heart—that it is their right to take the land.

I think the best way to get over someone is to get under someone else.

译文：做任何事都不要用欺骗的方式，头顶上有神灵在看着你。赏析：为人处事，不要昧着良心干坏事。常言道，平生不做亏心事，不怕半夜鬼敲门。坏事做尽，自会遭到神明的惩罚。

建筑必须是生活故事的画布。