Quotes from Paul Allen

My quest to expand access to space began more than a decade ago, when I teamed up with Burt Rutan at Scaled Composites to build SpaceShipOne. This innovative air-launched vehicle was the world's first private spacecraft to carry an astronaut into sub-orbital space.

In Portland, I am more involved in the details of trade discussions because I've been around that sport longer and can watch tape and can give some input to the drafting process. In football, not at all. It's so specialized.

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

I really do care about the health of the players. That's one of the tough things about the NFL - it's so physically tough on the players.

What people don't realize is the human body and the brain are so well designed to do - by millions of years of evolution - what we do.

One of the things I've come to appreciate about the brain is the importance of location. It's not just a set of interchangeable parts that you can swap in and out.

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.

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

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.

Our net worth is ultimately defined not by dollars but rather by how well we serve others.

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?

If it has the potential to do good, then we should do it