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We are proud of our low prices， our reliable delivery， and our in-stock position on even obscure and hard-to-find items。 We also know that we can still be much better， and were dedicated to improving further。
(注：借用柯林斯对飞轮效应和自我强化所做的定义，贝佐斯描绘过公司步入良性循环的前景：以更低的价格来吸引更多的顾客，更多的顾客意味着更高的销量，也会把第三方销售商更多吸引到亚马逊平台，这会使得亚马逊的固定设施更有效率，更加的效率会进一步降低价格。)
十四、2010:我们是一家科技公司
随即预测、单纯贝叶斯估计、RESTful服务、Gossip协议、事件一致性、反熵、拜占庭法定人数、纠删码、向量时钟算法……如果你走进亚马逊的某个会议室，你会误以为自己闯进了某个科技论坛。
Random forests， nave Bayesian estimators， RESTful services， gossip protocols， eventual consistency， datasharding， anti-entropy， Byzantine quorum， erasure coding， vector clocks … walk into certain Amazon meetings，and you may momentarily think youve stumbled into a computer science lecture。
如果仅仅认为科技是研发部门的事，那么科技的努力将发挥不了作用，事实上，我们整个团队、所有的决策均全程拥抱科技，科技与我们的决策、我们生意的每个方面、我们做的每件事情紧密结合。
All the effort we put into technology might not matter that much if we kept technology off to the side in some sort of R&D department， but we dont take that approach。 Technology infuses all of our teams， all of our processes， our decision-making， and our approach to innovation in each of our businesses。 It is deeply integrated into everything we do。