我总是试图在我的角色中找到真相。

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.

You have to believe in the impossible.

人类不仅是一种地质因素，而且可能是所有地质力量中最强大和最普遍的。

跨学科的合作对于推进我们对宇宙的理解至关重要。

"Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes."

It is not because certain things are difficult that we do not dare;it is because we do not dare that things are difficult.

我试图创造孩子们能够产生共鸣的角色，他们能在这些角色中看到自己的一点影子。

The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins.

Sustainability isn't an option; it's a responsibility we owe to future generations.