老年并不有趣,直到你真正到达那个年纪。
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.
每当有人逝去,总有少数的人们会想到:许多事情被忽略了,许多事情还未来得及去做;多少事情给遗忘了,而更多事情已无法弥救——足可见,平素对待周围的人们需用心才是;没有什么是比追悔莫及更令人懊丧的了;请让我们趁早记住这个理吧,以免受那样的痛苦。
要理解一个人,你必须先理解他们的沉默。
"The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team."