In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word 'frustration'.
在计算中,将显而易见的东西转化为有用的东西是“挫折”这个词的生动定义。
如果你不让自己周围聚集一群经验和技能超越你的人,你就无法建立任何类型的组织。
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.
Sustainability isn't a choice anymore - it's our responsibility to future generations.
用硬件定义体验的时代结束了,现在是软件定义体验的时代。