Paul Allen Quotes

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• 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…
• We've had some tough times, but we've hung in there.
• When it comes to helping out, I don't believe in doing it for the media attention. My goal is to support the organizations that need…
• In a company where tech decisions were still ultracentralized, the repercussions of a distracted CEO had to be damaging.
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• You look at things you enjoy in your life, but much more important is what you can do to make the world a better place.
• Any crusade requires optimism and the ambition to aim high
• The possible is constantly being redefined, and I care deeply about helping humanity move forward.
• 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…
• I was in a town of about 10,000 people, and a shipping container with a rusty microscope was their medical clinic.
• Even before I helped to co-found Microsoft, I saw a connected future . . . I called that future The Wired World.
• What should exist? To me, that's the most exciting question imaginable. What do we need that we don't have? How can we realize our potential?
• As a species, we've always been discoverers and adventurers, and space and the deep ocean are some of the last frontiers.
• I enjoy creating new ideas, working on new creative projects.
• I'm a very private person that prefers a low profile.
• Technology is notorious for engrossing people so much that they don't always focus on balance and enjoy life at the same time.
• 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…
• In global warming, I think everyone is scratching their heads - are there technological things that can be brought to bear that can make a…

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