255 Quotes by Paul Allen

I am very excited to be supporting one of the world’s most visionary efforts to seek basic answers to some of the fundamental question about our universe and what other civilisations may exist elsewhere.

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

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.

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?

Give away everything you know, and more will come back to you.

You could tell three things about Bill Gates pretty quickly. He was really smart. He was really competitive; he wanted to show you how smart he was. And he was really, really persistent.

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.

There's a whole different way to express yourself in music and the other arts, and it hopefully complements other things you do in technology.

I have held Jimi Hendrix's Woodstock guitar and imagined what it would be like to play it, but that's the extent of it.