255 Quotes by Paul Allen

In a company where tech decisions were still ultracentralized, the repercussions of a distracted CEO had to be damaging.

Even before I helped to co-found Microsoft, I saw a connected future . . . I called that future The Wired World.

I think it's going to be great if people can buy a ticket to fly up and see black sky and the stars. I'd like to do it myself-but probably after it has flown a serious number of times first!

For the most part, the best opportunities now lie where your competitors have yet to establish themselves, not where they're already entrenched. Microsoft is struggling to adapt to that new reality.

What is the best advice, business or otherwise, you've had and from whom? The best advice I've received came many years ago from my father. He told me that you should love whatever work you do, you should try to find something you truly enjoy. And I've been lucky through the years that the work I've been involved with has been challenging and for the most part, fun.

I was in a town of about 10,000 people, and a shipping container with a rusty microscope was their medical clinic.

Sometimes it's very difficult to find fresh fruit on the road.

Any crusade requires optimism and the ambition to aim high

The only regrets I have are rather prosaic - like I wish I went for a swim in the Pacific.