我的勤奋和我的荣誉，在我死后仍将足以鼓舞千秋万代的青年。

那些满口仁义道德，满脸肃杀严厉的人，不管他贩卖来世的货色，还是现世的货色，都一定是挂羊头卖狗肉。

狄更斯

幸福之人是在理性指导下，不受恐惧和欲望约束的人；离真理十万八千里的人不可能幸福。

塞涅卡

When we write programs that "learn", it turns out that we do and they don't.

当我们编写可以“学习”的程序时，事实证明我们是这样做的，而他们不是。

艾伦·佩利

认识自己的无知就是最大的智慧。想左右天下的人，需先能左右自己。想左右天下的人，需先能左右自己。

苏格拉底

Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest we take between two deep breaths.

有时候一整天中最重要的事情就是我们在两次深呼吸之间的休息。

克里斯蒂·沃森

追随自己内心的热情 16年前，我萌生了创办亚马逊的想法。彼时我面对的现实是互联网使用量以每年2300%的速度增长，我从未看到或听说过任何增长如此快速的东西。创建涵盖几百万种书籍的网上书店的想法令我兴奋异常，因为这个东西在物理世界里根本无法存在。那时我刚刚30岁，结婚才一年。我告诉妻子MacKenzie想辞去工作，然后去做这件疯狂的事情，很可能会失败，因为大部分创业公司都是如此，而且我不确定那之后会发生什么。MacKenzie告诉我，我应该放手一搏。在我还是一个男孩儿的时候，我是车库发明家。我曾用水泥填充的轮胎、雨伞和锡箔以及报警器制作了一个自动关门器。我一直想做一个发明家，MacKenzie支持我追随内心的热情。

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.