Paul Allen Quotations

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?

Technology is notorious for engrossing people so much that they don't always focus on balance and enjoy life at the same time.

You've got to enjoy time with your family and friends, and if you're involved in sports franchises, those peak moments in playoff games. You have to enjoy life.

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?

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 here, too.

I enjoy creating new ideas, working on new creative projects.

We've had some tough times, but we've hung in there.

That would be such a life-changing thing, for us all to know that there are other beings out there who we could potentially communicate with, or maybe we are listening to a signal that they transmitted hundreds of millennia ago.

I'm a very private person that prefers a low profile.

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 help.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The possible is constantly being redefined, and I care deeply about helping humanity move forward.

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

While I sign off on trades or free agents, I've rarely overruled my basketball people's decisions. But I'm not shy about steering the discussion or pushing deeper if something doesn't make sense to me.

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.

If you think about making a difference in the community, my family has always had a strong interest in the arts. I'm always interested in finding ways to innovate... It's a blend; it's not a point focus.

In the first eight or so years at Microsoft, we were always chained to our terminals, and after I got sick the first time, I decided that I was going to be more adventurous and explore more of the world.

With documentary-film projects, you hope you highlight an area of concern people haven't thought about before. A lot of times, I'm asking myself - 'This seems to be a significant problem. What can be done that hasn't been done?

We've basically sold our position in USAI. We're very much focused on bearing down on cable and interactive television.

We've basically sold our position in USAI, ... We're very much focused on bearing down on cable and interactive television.

We believe Tim will solidify the football culture of the Seahawks.

Whenever you advance to the Super Bowl after a period of not having success in the playoffs, you think about that as a potential springboard for the future. I think we've got great people in the front office and great players on the team. I told them that. Let's keep it together and keep going next year.

What we're doing here in very broad terms is outlining the actions we're going to take. It's premature for us to try to comment further at this point.

Neil is a proven, talented executive with the right combination of operational, marketing and customer service skills to lead Charter to the next level.

I was at the Super Bowl last year just hoping that one day we'd be able to get there. I may seem like a mild-mannered guy, but my gut was churning inside: 'Let's win this game. Just win this game. We've got to win this game.

I felt like I was part of the new era of the Seattle Seahawks,

There is going to be spring corn. There was a lot lost, but there will be corn in the spring and plenty of it.

He's a very prideful individual and a very sensitive individual. And he saw the team go on a winning streak without him. I think he kind of took it personally.

We looked more carefully at our emergency generator and our fuel supply, and our capability to provide uninterrupted power if we lost power,

I ache in my chest. It's pernicious. It's deadly. It gets in there, and it's infectious.

I think it's fantastic. It's great to be part of a franchise and have the players, coaches and fans see that national recognition and enjoy it.

I think we got over the hump today. I told the team we don't have to talk about 1984 anymore.

Jerry did an excellent job as Charter's chief executive officer, ... We are grateful for all that Jerry has done in contributing to Charter's success, and wish him well in whatever new endeavors he engages in.

I think eventually we would have evaluated and updated all our systems, but Y2K got us started early, and we maintained that foundation,

Our farm lost more crop this year due to Hurricane Wilma and two freezes than ever before.

Over 20 years ago, even before I helped to co-found Microsoft, I saw a connected future...I called that future 'the wired world,'

Our behavioral health records are appropriate for some doctors to see, but maybe not the nurse, but a psychiatrist would have full access,

Our attempt to send the first privately funded astronaut into suborbital space will be the next step in that process. If successful, it will be a major milestone in private space exploration.

I still have the original tapes that had the BASIC that we brought from Boston to Albuquerque that had the first versions of BASIC on them.

To be able to be even playing in an NFC championship game, with the support of all the fans, and the kind of outdoor environment that I dreamed about when I first got involved with the Seahawks, its just so rewarding and heart warming.

Fans had detached themselves. They were making jokes. It was the low point.

What's happened so far has exceeded my expectations.

Being an active board member for a dynamic and successful company such as Microsoft is a time-intensive role and one I have enjoyed for many years. However, this new role will enable me to spend my time on technology and products, where I can really make a significant contribution.

As I said before, I am optimistic about that. Obviously, there will be discussions with his agent over the coming weeks.

As I said before, I am optimistic about that.

Comprehensive portal services such as Go2Net delivered directly to set-top boxes will be a critical component in the future of cable,

There's a good chance of getting my original investment paid back, ... That's pretty amazing.

There should be a four-foot rule between you people and Paul Allen.

I've really enjoyed being the owner of the Trail Blazers. I've tried hard to bring the city a championship. Now we are in a tough rebuilding process with a broken financial model. We have asked for help in fixing it. If I have to sell the team or if it can't continue, that will be sad.

The Super Bowl. Wow! It's mind-blowing if you're a fan, how great it is to think of your team winning the Super Bowl.

Probably working on some version of software for the IBM PC.

Operating revenues from the Rose Garden -- including all the revenues from suites, club seats, concessions and other sources -- had become insufficient to pay the heavy debt burden, due, in large part, to declining attendance.

A few years down the road, when space tourism is available for everyone, it's going to be amazing and it's going make that momentum increase more and more,

The cable infrastructure provides an outlet for providing multimedia directly into the home.

You're playing in the Super Bowl -- it just doesn't get any better than that.

This investment marks another step forward in my 'Wired World' strategy, which is a connected future marked by the merger of high-bandwidth data channels, the power of the personal computer and the availability of valuable content,

This just feels like a different year, and that turned out to be the case today. Just the unity you feel here in the locker room. The amount of support you hear from the fans. It's just a different year.

There's a point where like most of the fans out there I just want the game over. It was just a pure thrill of exhilaration when the game was over.

There's an incredible feeling of emptiness and missed opportunity.

All of us in Seattle that are football fans and sports fans, I think we like getting some more focus on the town and enjoy that focus. And it's great to be a part of it.

It's just so rewarding and heartwarming, and I was really touched. And there were a lot of people up there saying thank you and that kind of got to me, actually.

It is part of our heritage and part of the landscape.

It's one of those psychological things that may or may not affect people. This year, and I've said this before, it just feels like a different year, and that turned out to be the case today.

It just didn't work out here. I'll have great memories. There were some amazing games.

Its incredible. I'm just really happy for the fans and the community. Everybody has supported the team all these years. And this year has been a special year n especially for the fans and the community.

It was just a pure thrill, exhilaration when the game was over.

The millwrights have done a wonderful job of restoration,

Incredible feeling of emptiness. It's a missed opportunity.

I'm just so happy for Mike. We had some ups and downs, plus exits in the first round of the play-offs. To be going into the Super Bowl after all that, it is fantastic. He is just a great coach.

I'm just really excited and proud of what we've been able to accomplish. I've been a patient owner of the franchise, and to see the city and the region rally around the team has been really heart-warming.

I'm not sure it has completely sunk in yet, but there is just a great feeling of warmth and satisfaction and joy, especially for all of the fans that have followed the team. You heard them out there today. Just to be part of that and to bring an NFC championship to Seattle, how amazing is that?

By investing into Marcus Cable, I will finally have some wires for my wired world.

Being aware of what this has done to our corporate reputation, we're not happy about it.

If I have to sell the team or if it can't continue, that will be sad. But sports franchises really only work if the community and ownership are in a mutually beneficial partnership.

I do think the Vikings will act quickly because there are many openings and a few candidates out there who, in the estimation of people who work in the NFL, really make a difference.

In a company where tech decisions were still ultracentralized, the repercussions of a distracted CEO had to be damaging.

Even before I helped to co-found Microsoft, I saw a connected future . . . I called that future The Wired World.

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!

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.

What is the best advice, business or otherwise, you've had and from whom? The best advice I've received came many years ago from my father. He told me that you should love whatever work you do, you should try to find something you truly enjoy. And I've been lucky through the years that the work I've been involved with has been challenging and for the most part, fun.

I was in a town of about 10,000 people, and a shipping container with a rusty microscope was their medical clinic.

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

Any crusade requires optimism and the ambition to aim high

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

The Charter board intends to move forward to select a new chief executive officer as quickly as practical,

All of a sudden the chemistry is different. It feels like a different year. I told the players that very early in the season -- it just felt like a different year.