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" The human brain is an incredible pattern-matching machine. "
Jeff Bezos
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" What consumerism really is, at its worst is getting people to buy things that don't actually improve their lives. "
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" 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. "
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" The killer app that got the world ready for appliances was the light bulb. So the light bulb is what wired the world. And they weren't thinking about appliances when they wired the world. They were really thinking about - they weren't putting electricity into the home. They were putting lighting into the home. "
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" People will visit Mars, they will settle mars, and we should because it's cool. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" Of course humans like to explore, and we should. There's nothing wrong with that. But it's more than that. It's essential for your children and your children's children. "
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" I think that, ah, I'm a very goofy sort of person in many ways. "
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" If you don't understand the details of your business you are going to fail. "
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" There'll always be serendipity involved in discovery. "
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" 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. "
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" For many people, extended reading sessions on an LCD display cause eyestrain. "
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" People forget already how much utility they get out of the Internet - how much utility they get out of e-mail, how much utility they get out of even simple things like brochureware online. "
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" I don't want to use my creative energy on somebody else's user interface. "
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" You know, we love stories and we love narrative; we love to get lost in an author's world. "
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" I grew up reading science fiction. "
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" Ebooks had to happen. "
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" I've always been at the intersection of computers and whatever they can revolutionize. "
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" Millions of people were inspired by the Apollo Program. I was five years old when I watched Apollo 11 unfold on television, and without any doubt it was a big contributor to my passions for science, engineering, and exploration. "
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" The special ops guys and the firefighters around the world have this great phrase. They say, 'Slow is smooth, and smooth is fast,' and that is true. Everything I've accomplished in my life has been because of that attitude. "
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" 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. "
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" We see our customers as invited guests to a party, and we are the hosts. It's our job every day to make every important aspect of the customer experience a little bit better. "
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