255 Quotes by Paul Allen

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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!