Quotes from Paul Allen

As more intelligent computer assistance comes into being, it will amplify human progress.

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

No one knows the complete function of sleep. Is it to reset the brain or give it more of a rest period? Is it for cleaning the brain of all the garbage protein? For me, talking about these things as a non-biologist is fascinating.

I am generally fascinated by what are the big, challenging questions - that's behind my curiosity.

When I was 7 or 8, I became fascinated with hot rods.

The brain is one of the richest green fields of science. There's so much yet to be discovered.

If you have the chance to realize some of these dreams you had as a kid, and you have the opportunity, why not pursue that?

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.

It's part of the juice of sports that you tend to find certain sports figures that you cheer on from other cities and others that you're a bit skeptical about.

Somehow, I knew you had to have perfect eyesight to be a test pilot, and so that was it for my astronaut career.

Once you become an owner of a team, you get so much more into the sport and you can't help it. So I really love NFL football now to the degree of following it much more than I did previously.

I'm not somebody that just has one or two things in life that are laserlike focused.

In the early days at Asymetrix, we were focusing on business automation.

All of us who care about the world going forward would like to engage the government more.

You have a certain number of dreams in your life you want to fulfill.

As an ex-programmer, I'm still just curious about how the brain functions, how that flow of information really happens.

There was a time when the government cut off funding to SETI, basically, and I thought it was something that should continue, and it was a very interesting scientific question.

I remember having pizza at Shakey's in Vancouver, Washington in 1973 and talking about the fact that eventually, everyone is going to be online and have access to newspapers and stuff, and wouldn't people be willing to pay for information on a computer terminal.

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.

I think, as an owner, you really want to do the team right, the fans right, and the community right and build a winning organization.

If you have an analytical bent like I do, going back to my days as a programmer, you like to ask questions.

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.

Objectively speaking, Traf-O-Data was a failure as a company. Right as our business started to pick up, states began to provide their own traffic-counting services to local governments for free.

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?