Paul Allen Quotations

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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

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