Paul Allen

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.

I've been on record many times in the past about the challenge of being competitive with NBA teams in smaller markets.

The unique thing about Stratolaunch - one of the unique things - is it doesn't require a fixed launchpad.

AI2 was born from a desire to create a system that could truly reason about knowledge, rather than just offer up what had been written on a subject before.

Any time you get to compete for the championship in a professional spot, it's just a magic thing.

It's very challenging to carve back market share.

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

Some people are motivated by a need for recognition, some by money, and some by a broad social goal. I start from a different place: from the love of ideas and the urge to put them into motion and see where they might lead.

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.

The brain is the most complex, challenging scientific puzzle we have ever tried to decode.

I'm kind of a retired software engineer. I don't write code anymore.

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

If you think about making a difference in the community, my family has always had a strong interest in the arts. I'm always interested in finding ways to innovate... It's a blend; it's not a point focus.

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

The Ebola virus is unlike any health crisis we have ever experienced and needs a response unlike anything we have ever seen.

As a species, we've always been discoverers and adventurers, and space and the deep ocean are some of the last frontiers.

Human beings are fragile things, and for the period of time it takes to get them to Mars and back, you have dangerous radiation from the sun and the galaxy. We have to think about issues like that.

I was the center on our fraternity team, but I was a center-eligible, so I was known for my ability to go out, and I was pretty sure-handed catching a pass in the flat about ten yards down the field. My father played high school football and was pretty good. He also played center, so I always relished the idea that we both ended up playing center.

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.

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