Paul Allen quotes

Paul Allen was an American businessman, philanthropist, and co-founder of Microsoft. A visionary in technology and innovation, he contributed to advancements in multiple fields, including space exploration and the arts. He was recognized for his charitable work and deep impact on science and education. Here are 32 of his quotes:

Traditionally, Seattle has been a great sports town and great football town. What the Huskies have achieved over the years has been pretty amazing. That's how I got my first taste of football - when I went with my father to Husky Stadium. (Paul Allen)

What should exist? To me, that's the most exciting question imaginable. What do we need that we don't have? How can we realize our potential?

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You look at things you enjoy in your life, but much more important is what you can do to make the world a better place.

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It's very challenging to carve back market share.

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I'm trying to transmit the visions of creativity and build institutions that are incredibly catalytic to their fields.

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Technology is notorious for engrossing people so much that they don't always focus on balance and enjoy life at the same time.

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You've got to enjoy time with your family and friends, and if you're involved in sports franchises, those peak moments in playoff games. You have to enjoy life.

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I simply wanted to advance the field of artificial intelligence so that computers could do what they do best (organize and analyze information) to help people do what they do best, those inspired leaps of intuition that fuel original ideas and breakthroughs.

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There's going to be reversals. You have to be ready, to be philosophical about that.

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Our great string of successes had married my vision to his unmatched aptitude for business.

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There are relatively few ideas that you can do just by yourself. (Paul Allen)

Others might have found us eccentric, but I didn't care. I had discovered my calling. I was a programmer.

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In my experience, each failure contains the seeds of your next success-if you are willing to learn from it.

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What we did was unprecedented, but what is less well understood is that we had no choice.

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I'm always interested in finding ways to innovate .... It's a blend; it's not a point focus.

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My style was to absorb all the data I could to make the best-informed decision possible, sometimes to the point of over-analysis.

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That would be such a life-changing thing, for us all to know that there are other beings out there who we could potentially communicate with, or maybe we are listening to a signal that they transmitted hundreds of millennia ago.

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We've had some tough times, but we've hung in there.

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I grew up around books. When I first held the book and it was a substantive, tangible thing, and I thought of all the work that went into it, not just my work but everybody else's and the research and so forth, there's a sense of really have done something worthwhile.

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In the first eight or so years at Microsoft, we were always chained to our terminals, and after I got sick the first time, I decided that I was going to be more adventurous and explore more of the world.

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In the computer industry, you've got an interdisciplinary team of people who can come together, attack the problem, and work in a collaborative style. You knock down one problem after another, cobble things together, and then hopefully turn the crank at some point. (Paul Allen)

I enjoy creating new ideas, working on new creative projects.

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In global warming, I think everyone is scratching their heads - are there technological things that can be brought to bear that can make a difference?

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The possible is constantly being redefined, and I care deeply about helping humanity move forward.

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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.

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Occupation: American Businessman
Born: January 21, 1953
Died: October 15, 2018
Quotes count: 32

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