Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos delivers graduation speech at Princeton University

It is hard to imagine life without amazon.com, even for someone of my advanced age.

即使對於像我這樣上了年紀的人來說，很難想象沒有亞馬遜網站的生活。

After all, where else can a few clicks of a mouse take you from the latest novel by Tony Morrison to an 18th century edition of the works of John Lockach, having

畢竟，除了這裡，還有哪裡能讓你透過幾次滑鼠點選，從託尼·莫里森的最新小說瞬間跳轉到約翰·洛克十八世紀的作品集？

stopped in power tools and women's shoes along the way.

途中還會順便瀏覽電動工具和女鞋等商品。

Yet, the founder and chief executive officer of the world's largest retailer, whose net sales surpassed 24.5 billion in 2009, is only 46 years old.

然而，這位全球最大零售商的創始人兼執行長年僅46歲，其2009年的淨銷售額已突破245億美元。

And Amazon.com has only existed since 1995, making it even younger than the class of 2010.

亞馬遜網站直到1995年才成立，甚至比2010屆的畢業生還要年輕。

The moral of this story is that the right idea in the right hands at the right time can change the way we lead our lives.

這個故事告訴我們：正確的想法、合適的人選以及恰當的時機，足以改變我們的生活方式。

The idea in this case was harnessing the power of the naent internet to create a virtual bookstore of limitless proportions.

當時的構想是利用網際網路的力量，建立一個規模無限的虛擬書店。

The hands were those of our speaker, Jeff Bezos, a self-described nerdy commuter commu computer science and electrical engineering major who graduated from Princeton with highest honors in 1986.

而‘雙手’的主人正是演講者傑夫·貝佐斯，他自稱是個書呆子氣的通勤者，主修電腦科學和電氣工程，於1986年以優異成績從普林斯頓大學畢業。

And the time was 1994 when he and his wife McKenzie Tuttle Bezos of the class of 1992 exchanged the security of Wall Street where they worked at De Shaun Company for

而那個時機是1994年，當時他和妻子麥肯齊·塔特爾·貝佐斯（1992屆畢業生）放棄了在德肖恩公司工作的華爾街安穩生活，

the uncertain prospects of a dotcom startup.

去追求一家初創網際網路公司充滿不確定性的前景。