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Sports is such a cyclical thing; it's often feast or famine. But what you try and do as an owner is build a winning organization.
- Paul Allen
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#Organization
#Sports
#Winning
The unique thing about Stratolaunch - one of the unique things - is it doesn't require a fixed launchpad.
- Paul Allen
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#Fixed
#Thing
#Things
#Unique
Languages evolve; ideas blend together. In computer technology, we all stand on others' shoulders.
- Paul Allen
#Ideas
#Stand
#Technology
#Together
The human brain works in, so far, mysterious and wondrous ways that are completely different than the ways that computers calculate. Things like appetite or emotion, how do those function in the brain?
- Paul Allen
#Brain
#Computers
#Human Brain
#Human
I was only in second grade when the Russian Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first man in space. The night of his launch - April 12, 1961 - I went out onto the front porch and stared up at the stars, trying to see his capsule passing overhead. Like millions of others, I was enthralled by the idea of space exploration and have been ever since.
- Paul Allen
#Man
#Night
#Space
#Stars
#Trying
The best museums and museum exhibits about science or technology give you the feeling that, hey, this is interesting, but maybe I could do something here, too.
- Paul Allen
#Best
#Feeling
#Here
#Science
#Technology
The thing you realize when you get into studying neuroscience, even a little bit, is that everything is connected to everything else. So it's as if the brain is trying to use everything at its disposal - what it is seeing, what it is hearing, what is the temperature, past experience.
- Paul Allen
#Brain
#Experience
#Past
#Realize
#Trying
Vulcan Inc. is a unique organization that unites commercial, philanthropic, research, policy, and technology innovation. Our goals are ambitious - from saving Africa's elephants to unlocking the secrets of the human brain to building sustainable communities and opening up access to space.
- Paul Allen
#Brain
#Goals
#Space
#Technology
#Unique
I got a taste when I was in Kenya a while ago of what medical care was in rural Africa. I was in a town of about 10,000 people, and a shipping container with a rusty microscope was their medical clinic.
- Paul Allen
#Care
#Medical
#Microscope
#People
#Taste
As quickly as it started, our business model evaporated. But while Traf-O-Data was technically a business failure, the understanding of microprocessors we absorbed was crucial to our future success.
- Paul Allen
#Business
#Failure
#Future
#Our
#Success
You have a certain number of dreams in your life you want to fulfill.
- Paul Allen
#Certain
#Dreams
#Life
#Want
#Your
I first got interested in the brain through computers.
- Paul Allen
#Brain
#Computers
#First
#Got
#Through
In order to be truly intelligent, computers must understand - that is probably the critical word.
- Paul Allen
#Computers
#Intelligent
#Must
#Understand
Computers are really, basically, computing elements and a lot of memory. They are pretty easy to understand, as compared to the brain, which was designed by evolution.
- Paul Allen
#Brain
#Computers
#Evolution
#Memory
As someone who was basically a software engineer for many years, I became fascinated with how the brain functions and is put together and works in such a different fashion than computers do.
- Paul Allen
#Brain
#Computers
#Fashion
#Together
#Who
We taught ourselves to simulate how microprocessors work using DEC computers so we could develop software even before our machine was built.
- Paul Allen
#Before
#Computers
#Develop
#How
#Software
#Work
Our dream is to one day uncover the essence of what makes us human.
- Paul Allen
#Day
#Essence
#Human
#One Day
#Us
I'm trying to transmit the visions of creativity and build institutions that are incredibly catalytic to their fields.
- Paul Allen
#Build
#Creativity
#Fields
#Trying
There are people out there who don't see value in intellectual property, and so they're always going to have a problem if there are lawsuits involving intellectual property.
- Paul Allen
#Always
#Intellectual
#People
#See
#Value
My quest to expand access to space began more than a decade ago, when I teamed up with Burt Rutan at Scaled Composites to build SpaceShipOne. This innovative air-launched vehicle was the world's first private spacecraft to carry an astronaut into sub-orbital space.
- Paul Allen
#Build
#Decade
#Space
#Vehicle
#World
If you have an analytical bent like I do, going back to my days as a programmer, you like to ask questions.
- Paul Allen
#Analytical
#Back
#Days
#Going
#Questions
Blame me for having to type the backslash in DOS.
- Paul Allen
#Blame
#Having
#Me
#Type
Our net worth is ultimately defined not by dollars but rather by how well we serve others.
- Paul Allen
#How
#Others
#Serve
#Well
#Worth
We've had some tough times, but we've hung in there.
- Paul Allen
#Had
#Some
#Times
#Tough Times
#Tough
I'm a very private person that prefers a low profile.
- Paul Allen
#Low
#Person
#Private Person
#Profile
The promise of artificial intelligence and computer science generally vastly outweighs the impact it could have on some jobs in the same way that, while the invention of the airplane negatively affected the railroad industry, it opened a much wider door to human progress.
- Paul Allen
#Door
#Impact
#Intelligence
#Progress
#Science
Nobody really knows what it would take to create something that is self-aware or has a personality. I guess I could imagine a day when perhaps, if we can understand how it works in the human brain, which is unbelievably complicated, it could be possible.
- Paul Allen
#Brain
#Day
#Human Brain
#Personality
In my own work, I've tried to anticipate what's coming over the horizon, to hasten its arrival, and to apply it to people's lives in a meaningful way.
- Paul Allen
#Horizon
#My Own
#People
#Way
#Work
I enjoy creating new ideas, working on new creative projects.
- Paul Allen
#Creating
#Enjoy
#Ideas
#New Ideas
#New
Technology is notorious for engrossing people so much that they don't always focus on balance and enjoy life at the same time.
- Paul Allen
#Balance
#Enjoy Life
#Focus
#Life
#Technology
#Time
Continuity is important in sports.
- Paul Allen
#Continuity
#Important
#Sports
If it hadn't been for our Traf-O-Data venture, and if it hadn't been for all that time spent on UW computers, you could argue that Microsoft might not have happened.
- Paul Allen
#Computers
#Happened
#Microsoft
#Time
Some people can vent their anger, take a breath, and let it go, but I wasn't one of them.
- Paul Allen
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#Breath
#Go
#People
#Some People
#Take
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