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" One of the things it was obvious you could do with an online store is have a much more complete selection. "

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" I think the definition of a book is changing. "

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" I don't want to use my creative energy on somebody else's user interface. "

" I've always been at the intersection of computers and whatever they can revolutionize. "

" When we build our own colonies, we can do them in near-Earth vicinity, because people are going to want to come back to Earth. Very few people - for a long time, anyway - are going to want to abandon Earth altogether. "

" What's dangerous is not to evolve. "

" The human brain is an incredible pattern-matching machine. "

" I'm a big fan of all-you-can-eat plans, because they're simpler for customers. "

" The thing that motivates me is a very common form of motivation. And that is, with other folks counting on me, it's so easy to be motivated. "

" I think there are going to be a bunch of tablet-like devices. It's really a different product category. "

" You cannot make a giant space company in your dorm room. Not today. And the reason is that the heavy lifting infrastructure isn't in place. "

" Humans are unbelievably data efficient. You don't have to drive 1 million miles to drive a car, but the way we teach a self-driving car is have it drive a million miles. "

" I read 'The High Frontier' in high school. I read it multiple times, and I was already primed. As soon as I read it, it made sense to me. It seemed very clear that planetary surfaces were not the right place for an expanding civilization inside our solar system. "

" If you do build a great experience, customers tell each other about that. Word of mouth is very powerful. "

" I think frugality drives innovation, just like other constraints do. One of the only ways to get out of a tight box is to invent your way out. "

" We've had three big ideas at Amazon that we've stuck with for 18 years, and they're the reason we're successful: Put the customer first. Invent. And be patient. "

" The question really is, are you improving the world? And you can do that in many models. You can do that in government, you can do that in a nonprofit, and you can do it in commercial enterprise. "

" Cultures, for better or worse, are very stable. "

" I'm a genetic optimist. "

" If your customer base is aging with you, then eventually you are going to become obsolete or irrelevant. You need to be constantly figuring out who are your new customers and what are you doing to stay forever young. "

" What consumerism really is, at its worst is getting people to buy things that don't actually improve their lives. "

" We need to know what the resources of the moon are. We have great evidence now because of different kinds of radar and spectroscopic analysis that people have been able to do. But we really do need to go visit there, and we can do that with a robot craft without any problem. "

" You don't want to negotiate the price of simple things you buy every day. "

" I don't think that you can invent on behalf of customers unless you're willing to think long-term, because a lot of invention doesn't work. If you're going to invent, it means you're going to experiment, and if you're going to experiment, you're going to fail, and if you're going to fail, you have to think long term. "

" Beautiful speech doesn't need protection, it's ugly speech that needs protection. We have these cultural norms that allow people to say really ugly things. You don't have to invite them to your dinner party, but you should let them say it. "

" When it comes to space, I see it as my job, I'm building infrastructure the hard way. I'm using my resources to put in place heavy lifting infrastructure so the next generation of people can have a dynamic, entrepreneurial explosion into space. "

" The Moon Village concept has a nice property in that it basically just says, 'Look, everybody builds their own lunar outpost, but let's do it close to each other.' That way... you can go over to the European Union lunar outpost and say, 'I'm out of eggs. What have you got?' "

" I very much believe the Internet is indeed all it is cracked up to be. "

" You know you're not anonymous on our site. We're greeting you by name, showing you past purchases, to the degree that you can arrange to have transparency combined with an explanation of what the consumer benefit is. "

" The key thing about a book is that you lose yourself in the author's world. "