Paul Allen Quotes

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Paul Allen

Profession : Businessman

Birth : January 21, 1953

I think if you look at, for instance, what the Seahawks - what we did winning the Super Bowl, that was with a very young team. So you have to blend the experience with young players and develop those as well.

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I'd love to bring a championship here to Portland.

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Some people are motivated by a need for recognition, some by money, and some by a broad social goal. I start from a different place: from the love of ideas and the urge to put them into motion and see where they might lead.

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I've always been interested in many different things.

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I'm kind of a retired software engineer. I don't write code anymore.

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I would go in the university stacks and pull out books like 'Jane's Fighting Aircraft of World War II' when I was 12 or something, and I'd spend hours reading about the engines in some of those planes.

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Some of my first memories are waiting for my father to finish his day at work in the University of Washington library and come out and jump in the car with my mom and myself, and we'd be sitting there reading books, and then we'd go home.

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Artificial intelligence... I've been following that since I was in high school.

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The unique thing about Stratolaunch - one of the unique things - is it doesn't require a fixed launchpad.

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I want to have a family.

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I'm not a video-game player at all.

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There are so many websites I read; I look at everything from Slashdot to Ars Technica to the business technology sites, major newspapers like the 'New York Times,' and my local papers where I live, which cover the sports teams I'm involved with. There are about 20 sites we go to regularly, and I do use Twitter and Facebook as well.

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I'm on Twitter, and I have over 10,000 followers. Which is pretty modest compared to Charlie Sheen.

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All of us who care about the world going forward would like to engage the government more.

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Once you own a team for as many years as I have, and you root for that team for that period of time, you've got rooting for the Blazers in your blood, and the Sonics are one of our arch-competitors.

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

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In technology, most things fail. Most companies fail.

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It's really amazing to stand in front of a work you haven't seen before and be almost overwhelmed by its beauty and the vision and execution of the artist.

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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.

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Seattle has a long tradition of celebrating local and non-local art - from the Burke and Seattle Art Museums to the Asian Art Museum.

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