255 Quotes by Paul Allen

You want someone who will challenge you back; sometimes, that's the way the best decisions get made.

I think I've got such a diverse set of interests - movies, aviation, technology, sports teams.

Vulcan Inc. is a unique organization that unites commercial, philanthropic, research, policy, and technology innovation. Our goals are ambitious - from saving Africa's elephants to unlocking the secrets of the human brain to building sustainable communities and opening up access to space.

The definition of the good life is doing creative things, whether making music, trying to figure out how to do a particular piece of code, or putting together investments.

In technology, most things fail. Most companies fail.

If it hadn't been for our Traf-O-Data venture, and if it hadn't been for all that time spent on UW computers, you could argue that Microsoft might not have happened.

Long periods can pass between the times you play for a championship, so you have to savor those moments.

That darn luxury tax is pretty painful.

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?